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It was not until modern scholarship uncovered the secret of reading Middle English that we could understand that Chaucer, far fr
It was not until modern scholarship uncovered the secret of reading Middle English that we could understand that Chaucer, far fr
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2011-03-26
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It was not until modern scholarship uncovered the secret of reading Middle English that we could understand that Chaucer, far from being a rude versifier, was a perfectly accomplished technician, and that his verse is rich in music and elegant to the highest degree. Chaucer’s own urbane personality is a delight to encounter in his books, He is avowedly a bookworm, yet few poets observe nature with more freshness and delight. He is a master of genial satire but can sympathize with true piety and goodness with as much pleasure as he attacks the hypocritical.
It is not an uncommon estimate of Chaucer that he must be counted among the few greatest of English poets. In range of interest he is surpassed only by Shakespeare. He was recognized already in the Renaissance, when it came to England, as the Father of English Poetry. He was a man of wide learning and wrote with ease on religion, philosophy, ethics, science, rhetoric. No man has more completely summed up an age than Chaucer has his, yet the people of his great poems, are revealed as men and women are in all times.
Master of verse, as Chaucer was, he introduced into English poetry many verse forms: the heroic couplet (in which form most of The Canterbury Tales is written), verse written in iambic pentameter, rhyming aa, bb, cc, etc.--a form that was to be very important in the eighteenth century; the rime royal, a seven-line stanza in iambic pentameters, rhyming ababbcc (Troilus and Criseyde); the terza rima, three-line stanzas, rhyming aba, bcb cdc, etc.(which he imitated from Dante, in some of his minor poems); and the eight-line iambic pentameter stanza, rhyming ababbcbc (The Monk’s Tale).
Chaucer was unpopular in the 18th century because ______.
选项
A、he was surpassed by Shakespeare
B、he used the heroic couplet
C、people did not know how to read his poetry
D、he was a bookworm
答案
C
解析
乔叟在18世纪不受欢迎,因为人们不知道如何阅读他的诗歌。根据第一段首句,直到当代的学者们揭示出解读中古英语的奥秘,我们才了解到,乔叟决不是一位粗鲁的诗人,而是一位卓有成就的技师。他的诗富于乐感,雅致到了极点。
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