„Das Leben so kurz, das Handwerk so lang zu lernen.“
The Parliament of Fowls, 1382
Original engl.: "The lyf so short, the craft so longe to lerne."
Geburtstag: 1343
Todesdatum: 25. Oktober 1400
Andere Namen: Джеффри Чосер
Geoffrey Chaucer war ein englischer Schriftsteller und Dichter, der als Verfasser der Canterbury Tales berühmt geworden ist. In einer Zeit, in der die englische Dichtung noch vorwiegend auf Latein, Französisch oder Anglonormannisch geschrieben wurde, gebrauchte Chaucer die Volkssprache und erhob dadurch das Mittelenglische zur Literatursprache. Sein Familienname leitet sich vom franz. chausseur, „Schuhmacher“, ab.
The Parliament of Fowls, 1382
Original engl.: "The lyf so short, the craft so longe to lerne."
— Geoffrey Chaucer, buch The Canterbury Tales
Quelle: The Canterbury Tales
— Geoffrey Chaucer, buch The Canterbury Tales
Quelle: The Canterbury Tales
— Geoffrey Chaucer, buch The Canterbury Tales
Quelle: The Canterbury Tales
— Geoffrey Chaucer, buch The Canterbury Tales
The Reeve's Tale, l. 134
The Canterbury Tales
Variante: The gretteste clerkes been noght wisest men.
Quelle: The Complete Poetry and Prose
— Geoffrey Chaucer, buch Parlement of Foules
Parlement of Foules, l. 1-4; comparable with Hippocrates, Aphorisms 1:1
Quelle: The Parliament of Birds
— Geoffrey Chaucer, buch The Canterbury Tales
The Knight's Tale, IV, 1919 - 1921
The Canterbury Tales
Kontext: What is this world? what asketh men to have?
Now with his love, now in his colde grave
Allone, withouten any compaignye.
— Geoffrey Chaucer, buch Troilus and Criseyde
Troilus and Criseyde (1380s)
Kontext: Ye knowe eek, that in forme of speche is chaunge
Withinne a thousand yeer, and wordes tho
That hadden prys, now wonder nyce and straunge
Us thinketh hem; and yet they spake hem so,
And spedde as wel in love as men now do;
Eek for to winne love in sondry ages,
In sondry londes, sondry ben usages.
Book 2, line 22-28
— Geoffrey Chaucer, buch The Canterbury Tales
The Nun's Priest's Tale, l. 672-677
The Canterbury Tales
Kontext: But yet that holden this tale a folly,
As of a fox, or of a cock and hen,
Taketh the morality, good men.
For Saint Paul saith that all that written is,
To our doctrine it is y-writ, ywis;
Taketh the fruit, and let the chaff be still.
— Geoffrey Chaucer, buch The Canterbury Tales
The Knight's Tale, lV 2177 - 2186
The Canterbury Tales
Kontext: p>What maketh this, but Juppiter the kyng,
That is prince and cause of alle thyng
Convertynge al unto his propre welle
From which it is deryved, sooth to telle,
And heer-agayns no creature on lyve
Of no degree availleth for to strive.Thanne is it wysdom, as it thynketh me,
To maken vertu of necessity,
And take it weel, that we may nat eschue;
And namely, that to us alle is due.</p
— Geoffrey Chaucer, buch The Canterbury Tales
The Knight's Tale, lV, 1990 - 1992
The Canterbury Tales
Kontext: This world nys but a thurghfare ful of wo,
And we been pilgrymes, passynge to and fro;
Deeth is an ende of every worldly soore.
— Geoffrey Chaucer, buch Troilus and Criseyde
Book 2, line 22-28
Troilus and Criseyde (1380s)
Kontext: Ye knowe eek, that in forme of speche is chaunge
Withinne a thousand yeer, and wordes tho
That hadden prys, now wonder nyce and straunge
Us thinketh hem; and yet they spake hem so,
And spedde as wel in love as men now do;
Eek for to winne love in sondry ages,
In sondry londes, sondry ben usages.
— Geoffrey Chaucer, buch The Canterbury Tales
The Knight's Tale, l. 1181-1182
The Canterbury Tales
Kontext: And therfore, at the kynges court, my brother,
Ech man for hymself, ther is noon other.
— Geoffrey Chaucer, buch Troilus and Criseyde
Book 5, line 1835-1841
Troilus and Criseyde (1380s)
Kontext: O yonge fresshe folkes, he or she,
In which that love up-groweth with your age,
Repeyreth hoom fro worldly vanitee,
And of your herte up-casteth the visage
To thilke God that after his image
Yow made, and thynketh al nis but a faire
This world, that passeth sone as floures faire.
— Geoffrey Chaucer, buch The Canterbury Tales
Quelle: The Canterbury Tales
— Geoffrey Chaucer, buch Troilus and Criseyde
Quelle: Troilus and Criseyde