The General Prologue’: The Very Beginning of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales : : in the original Middle English: : back to a spring more than six centuries ago. The General Prologue to Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales is one of the jewels in the crown of medieval English literature. From its opening lines extolling the virtuesContinue reading “The General Prologue : Geoffrey Chaucer : : April Poems : : Month Poems : :”