Canterbury : borough in county of Kent. Originally the Durovernum of the Romans & the Cantwaraburh (fort of the Kentish militia), it grew into the religious centre of England after St. Augustine settled there in 597, built his abbey & cathedral & soon became the Archbishop, the Primate of England. The murder of Archbishop Thomas À Becket (1118?-1170) & the ensuing penance of King Henry II is the subject of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. Canterbury’s most important site is St. Martin Church, the Mother Church of England, established before St. Augustine’s arrival.
... bent he seems quite useless, especially as he expended his imagination on themes which do not interest us any more, the age of chivalry and Una being more irrevocably gone than even that of the Canterbury pilgrims. In fact, whatever customs and figures of Chaucer's time may have fallen into obsolescence, the main stuff of his creation still corresponds to life's play around us, and that is why Spenser... divorced from personal emotion. On the whole, however, he is more often great than Chaucer. Except for the Prologue and the episode of the Christian child slain in the ghetto there is not much in the "Canterbury Tales" about which we can feel that the metrical swing and the chime of rhyme so transfigure the composition that its soul would absolutely evaporate without them — and there is also no great intensity ...
... — Mr. Lal's bite noire in relation to that notorious quotation of his from Savitri. And, of course, most free is the locus classions of rain-stirring: Chaucer's vision of the pilgrimage to Canterbury When that Aprille with his shoures sote The droghte of Marche hath perced to the rote. Page 445 But we can hardly assert the same of Mr. Lal's lyric. Nor are its "blurred ...
... over it. All the shades and nuances of English poetry Amal knows with absolute thoroughness even as they become an aspect of his creative personality. Everything from Page 131 Canterbury Tales to Savitri flows in his blood-stream. Once I told Amal that he would be carrying English poetry along with him to the next life, which he with a confirming smile seemed to savour. It has ...
... Correspondence with The Mother 17 November 1937 Mother, Here’s a picture of Lord Nuffield. You must have heard of him. Recently, the Archbishop of Canterbury spoke of our times as “this Nuffield Age”, for this man’s munificence has been simply breath-bereaving. Last year he gave £2,000,000 for medical research. The other day he offered the University ...
... Chandra Mallik at the recent Tyabji memorial meeting in London. After this we shall be told that it would be sinful to discourse on religion at a commemoration service in honour of a Lord Bishop of Canterbury or to speak on science at a memorial meeting of a President of the British Association. We think at the recent Tyabji-Bose meeting in London, Babu Romesh Chandra Dutt must have discoursed, therefore ...
... Mr. Lai's bête noire in relation to that notorious quotation of his from Savitri. And, of course, most free is the locus classicus of rain-stirring: Chaucer's vision of the pilgrimage to Canterbury When that Aprille with his shoures sote The droghte of Marche hath perced to the rote. But we can hardly assert the same of Mr. Lai's lyric. Nor are its "blurred sentiments" ...
... half hours from Edinburgh. The Bishop had a castle in the city which is the capital of County Durham. His See is the third most important in the Church of England—that is, after the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Archbishop of York. His castle has been given over to the University of Durham, which is now renamed University College. He has now a castle which is his residence in Bishop Auckland, about ...
... a particular temperament. We do not always feel that the medium of verse was absolutely necessary to Chaucer: well-tempered limpid prose could have done almost as well, and actually some of his "Canterbury Tales" are in prose. But now and again among his 17,000 and odd lines there occur passages that exceed the superficial charm possible to rhymed and metred expression and stay with us as precious ...
... Darwin must have more than once felt perplexed when it became increasingly clear to him that Queen Victoria too was unquestionably descended from a she-monkey. And the great Archbishop of Canterbury. It was somewhat “like confessing a murder,” he admitted before embarking on The Origin of Species, and proceeded to become agnostic: our whole Biblical and religious “creationism” was collapsing ...
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