The Portable Chaucer Author:Geoffery Chaucer Chaucer is the cornerstone of English poetry, and he gave the world exactly what a great poet should give: new types of fictional characters, new expressions of human feeling, and a unique personal style. This volume brings together some of the choicest riches from the heritage left us by this forteenth-century genius, put into modern English by... more » Theodore Morrison, who is himself a gifted poet. He had admirably succeded in producing a faithful rendition of the oriinal, recapturing Chaucer in all his earthly vigor and timeless humanity, while removing what to many readers is the obstacles of the Middle English idiom« less