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【正文】 r time. The significance of The Canterbury Tales. Chaucer is the father of English literature, and started a great tradition for English literature: he initiated the realistic tradition in English literature。 he initiated the tradition of irony and satire in English literature。 though he used London dialect to write The Canterbury Tales, Chaucer contributed a lot to prosody in English poetry, and was the first English poet to write with heroic couplet (two rhyming lines of iambic pentameter). She wet her fingers lightly in the dish / Of sauce: She never dipped her fingers in the sauce too deep. From the context, it can be known that she wanted to avoid gluttony. Chaucer?s original text for the last two lines “On it a larger A and a crown above。 / Beneath, ?All things are subject unto love.?” is “On which ther was first writen a crowned A, / And after, Amor vincit omnia.” That is, an A with an ornamental crown on it, and lower, written the Latin phrase meaning “l(fā)ove conquers all.” The Latin phrase is a much debated sentence: is it divine love or secular love?
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