Chaucer’s Middle English - Don’t Be Intimidated!
Wallace explains how poetic and musical Middle English is compared to modern English.
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David Wallace studied at York and Cambridge. Currently Judith Rodin Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, he has held visiting positions at Jerusalem, Melbourne, London, and Princeton. He has served as President of the New Chaucer Society, is currently Second Vice President of the Medieval Academy of America, and has made a series of documentaries for BBC Radio 3. He is the author of Geoffrey Chaucer A New Introduction, OUP 2017.
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