Brian Strand Poet Prose Poetry

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Chaucer's 

elegiac poetry in ' The Book of the Duchess'

STRAND POETIC REVIEW Sept 27

Chaucer's elegiac poetry 
 The Book of the Duchess

The father of poetry in the early English language
in this original  excerpt 
       try his tercet   if you so wish

I have gret wonder, by this lighte,
How that I live, for day ne nighte
I may nat slepe wel nigh noght;

Geoffry Chaucer served as a page
first poet of ye olde English age
His Canterbury tales quite a feat
a work  never did complete

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