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Chaucer’s poetry has been consistently admired from his own time down to ours. His contemporaries praised him for his rhetorical skill, his learning, his love poetry and his translations. Significantly Deschamps, writing around 1386, in comparing him to such figures of the past as Socrates and Ovid conferred on him the status of an auctor (see 1.6).
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Samson, A. (1987). Critical Reception. In: The Knight’s Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer. Macmillan Master Guides. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-08915-4_9
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