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R.M. Lumiansky
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BIOGRAPHY

Professor of English, New York University, New York City, 1975–83. Author of Of Sondry Folk: The Dramatic Principle in the Canterbury Tales and others.

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Geoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer was the outstanding English poet before William Shakespeare and β€œthe first finder of our language.” His masterpiece, The Canterbury Tales, ranks as one of the greatest poetic works in the English language. Chaucer also contributed importantly in the second half of the 14th century…
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