Craig A. Berry wrote:
> The title is "Makyng Poesie: Chaucer and the Ancients," in which I argue=
> that Chaucer sought to make his poetry a glue language capable of=
> integrating the legacy systems of the Roman poets with the heterogeneous=
> work of cutting-edge vernacular verse developers in his own time. Of=
> course, I'll have to put it in slightly different terms for the Illinois=
> Medieval Association ;-). So, yes, broadly speaking, the topic is vmsperl,=
> but the audience won't know that ;-).
"This noble ensample to his shepe he yaf,--
That first he wrought, and afterwards he taught."
B<Canterbury Tales> Line 498, From the text of Tyrwhitt
as cited in Bartletts Familiar Quotations, B<9th ed.>
http://www.bartleby.com/99/111.html
Sorry I couldn't be of more help :-)
Peter Prymmer
