To ask about Chaucer's religion is a little thickheaded, because the main thing about Chaucer is his distance from religion. He's important in the history of English lit partly because he's "the first great secular poet in English," and if we wanted to read religious literature from the 14th century, we could go read that instead of "the first great secular poet" Chaucer. This seems to be the dominant point of view in...
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Last Friday I had the chance to get together with the other profs in my department, including adjuncts and a few teachers from Torrey Academy and talk about King Lear for three hours. We call these meetings "High Table" meetings, because in them we do exactly what our students do, with the same texts for the same length of time using the same rules of conversation, but we do it as a faculty. So the table is higher, and...
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