The Cantebury Tales (PocketBook)

Bawdy, pious, erudite, absurd, tragic, comic: here in Dryden's words is God's plenty' 

With their astonishing diversity of tone and subject-matter, The Canterbury Tales have become one of the touchstones of medieval literature. The tales are told by a motley crowd of pilgrims as they journey for five days from Southward to Canterbury. Drawn from all levels of society and all walks of life (from knight to nun, miller to monk), the pilgrims reveal

a picture of English life in the fourteenth century which is as

robust as it is representative.

Rendered here with consummate skill and sensitivity into modern English verse by Neville Coghill, The Canterbury Tales (which Geoffrey Chaucer began in 1386 and never

completed) retain all their vigour, their humour and indeed their poetry.