‘The Hokey-Cokey—Chaucer Style’: A Poem by Paul A. Freeman The Society July 15, 2025 Chaucer, Culture, Poetry 2 Comments . The Hokey-Cokey---Chaucer Style With music was a dingy tavern blessed, In Southwark, where we stopped to take our rest. The Miller, Robin, on his bagpipes played A tune---the Hokey-Cokey---and he made Us...
‘The Dyer’s Second Tale—A Medieval Heist’: A Poem by Paul A. Freeman The Society May 23, 2025 Chaucer, Poetry 12 Comments . The Dyer’s Second Tale---A Medieval Heist Here beginneth the Dyer’s Second Tale . Part I The Third Crusade had reached its bloody height,And all throughout the Holy Land the mightOf European soldiery...
‘Anachronistic Chaucer’ and Other Springtime Poetry by Paul A. Freeman The Society April 25, 2025 Beauty, Chaucer, Humor, Poetry, Triolet 12 Comments . Anachronistic Chaucer When April showers, forecast on TV,delayed our pilgrimage to Canterbury,an eating house, clept Hooters, we espiedbeside a leafy glade where we could bideour time in revelry and...
SCP Poet Paul A. Freeman Wins Queen’s English Society Poetry Competition The Society October 16, 2023 Chaucer, Poetry 23 Comments . Congratulations to Society of Classical Poets Member Paul A. Freeman who won the Queen's English Society Poetry Competition. His winning poem was "An Apple for Geoffrey Chaucer." Read the official...
An Essay on Geoffrey Chaucer: ‘The Great Legitimizer’ by Euphrates Moss The Society July 6, 2023 Chaucer, Essays, Poetry 4 Comments . The Great Legitimizer by Euphrates Moss Up from the barbaric yawp of Beowulf and routing through Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375), an Italian poet of great distinction, Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340s-1400) created...
The Canterbury Tales General Prologue: Translation of Lines 1-18 The Society May 7, 2022 Beauty, Chaucer, Culture, Education, Poetry, Translation 16 Comments . The Canterbury Tales---General Prologue, Lines 1-18 by Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400) Translated by Evan Mantyk When April’s sweetest showers downward shoot, The drought of March is pierced right to the...
A Valentine from Geoffrey Chaucer, Margaret Coats, and James A. Tweedie The Society February 14, 2022 Beauty, Chaucer, Culture, Love Poems, Music, Poetry, Readings, Rondel, Translation, Video 21 Comments . https://youtu.be/3XWcnISYGSE . Rondel for Saint Valentine's Day by Geoffrey Chaucer (c.1340–1400) | modernized in the original lyric form by Margaret Coats Now welcome, springtime, with your gentle...
‘Twelve Chaucerian Limericks’ by Joseph S. Salemi The Society December 20, 2021 Chaucer, Culture, Humor, Limerick, Poetry 19 Comments . Twelve Chaucerian Limericks for Paul Freeman Some pilgrims went riding to Kent, And here’s how the journey was spent: As they traipsed through the dale They each told a tale Of sacred or worldly...
