(7 quotes found)
“The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity: of Spencer, remoteness: of Milton elevation and of Shakespeare everything.”
William Hazlitt
“Here Greek and Roman find themselves alive along these crowded shelves; and Shakespeare treads again his stage, and Chaucer paints anew his age.”
John Greenleaf Whittier
“Browning! Since Chaucer was alive and hale, / No man hath walked along our roads with step / So active, so inquiring eye, or tongue/ So varied in discourse.”
Walter Savage Landor
“He [Chaucer] is a perpetual fountain of good sense.”
John Dryden
“The story of Ulysses and Agamemnon and Menelaus, of Jesus, of the Good Knight of Chaucer, lives in every one of us.”
James Lee Burke
“Es gibt keinen Grund warum Kinder Chaucer [engl. Dichter des 14.Jhd., Anm.d.Red.] nicht genauso gut zitieren könnenwie Mos Def [Schauspieler und Rapper, Anm.d.Red.]. Die Wahrheit und das Bewahren des Schönen ist ein klarer Hinweis darauf, dass man lebendig ist.”
Star Trek
“The worshipful father and first founder and embellisher of ornate eloquence in our English, I mean Master Geoffrey Chaucer”
William Caxton
