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Troilus and Criseyde
Troilus and Criseyde | Geoffrey Chaucer
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Chaucer's longest complete poem is the supreme evocation of doomed courtly love in medieval English literature. Set during the tenth year of the siege of Troy, the poem relates how Troilus - with the help of Criseyde's wily uncle Pandarus - persuades her to become his lover, only to be betrayed when she is handed over to the Greek camp and yields to Diomede.
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Graywacke
Troilus and Criseyde | Geoffrey Chaucer
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I really enjoyed this. It's a highlight of my year. I read it in the morning for 20 to 40 minutes and relished it, reading only six or so pages at a sitting, for about 3 months.

I loved the humor, the language, the tone, the poetry of sound (and spelling), and the linguistic play. I‘m looking forward to Canterbury Tales.

dabbe Same to you and your perseverance! 🤩🤩🤩 11mo
Graywacke @dabbe 😉 11mo
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Graywacke
Troilus and Criseyde | Geoffrey Chaucer
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Finally starting this - a Broadview press edition.

dabbe I spy a sleepy gal! 🖤🐾🖤 14mo
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kgriffith
Troilus and Cressida | Geoffrey Chaucer
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Some of the spoils of my “pretend to be a tourist day” with @brandybear22 yesterday — fancy candy and the penguin she won for me in the arcade. We wrapped the day with her reading a bit more to me: we‘d abandoned poor Troilus for too long!

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kgriffith
Troilus and Cressida | Geoffrey Chaucer
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🥰

MrBook awesome! 😎👍🏻👍🏻 5y
LauraJ ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜 5y
Emilymdxn I need me a partner who will take cute pics with copies of Chaucer 🥰You both look great! 5y
brandybear22 Aww, that‘s a very sweet face 5y
kgriffith @Emilymdxn I definitely lucked out — this one even reads it to me! 😍 5y
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kgriffith
Troilus and Cressida | Geoffrey Chaucer
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Sleepovers mean bedtime reading together 😊

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brandybear22
Troilus and Cressida | Geoffrey Chaucer
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But if you find a word you think is clever,
Use it but once, don‘t harp on it forever!

kgriffith Such sage advice. 😉 5y
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kgriffith
Troilus and Cressida | Geoffrey Chaucer
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It‘s been a while but we‘re back at it 😊🥰 @brandybear22

brandybear22 “ For love alone could make a song so gay...” 5y
brandybear22 @kgriffith I don‘t think it counts in the gay 🤷🏻‍♂️ but, yeah 5y
kgriffith @brandybear22 probably not, though I‘m pretty sure that bit about the thousand swords and the guy being hot was allegorical. 5y
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kgriffith
Troilus and Cressida | Geoffrey Chaucer
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Book II: ATTACK! 😋

Bklover Cute pic!!!❤️❤️ 6y
Soubhiville Oh my gosh you two are adorable. 💕 6y
JSW 😍😍🙌🏼🙌🏼 6y
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kgriffith
Troilus and Cressida | Geoffrey Chaucer
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Starting our new book 😻

Emilymdxn One of my favourites ever! 6y
kgriffith @Emilymdxn I‘ve not read Chaucer so I was excited that @brandybear22 decided he was next up on our list 😊 6y
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jesschriver
Troilus and Criseyde | Geoffrey Chaucer
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..."with heart left for heart."