Yesterday, 12:04 PM
Thanks for clarifying
I think something we constantly underestimate is how much better we are than people in the time of Chaucer, including Chaucer
Universal literacy, at least in the western world, cultural familiarity, tertiary education alone are taken for granted now, without even going into the content of that education itself, which was, frankly, crap until about two hundred years ago.
Unfortunately, I can’t speak to this subject without ranting about the utter imbecility of people in eras past, but if you look past that, you will no doubt agree that poetic form as understood by Chaucer and Petrarch are like try wheels on a bicycle for us today. I mentioned the precocious child not as an insult but as a statement of fact. Children today can write better than Chaucer, technically speaking. The standards of the past are vile garbage.
Down with history!!
I think something we constantly underestimate is how much better we are than people in the time of Chaucer, including Chaucer
Universal literacy, at least in the western world, cultural familiarity, tertiary education alone are taken for granted now, without even going into the content of that education itself, which was, frankly, crap until about two hundred years ago.
Unfortunately, I can’t speak to this subject without ranting about the utter imbecility of people in eras past, but if you look past that, you will no doubt agree that poetic form as understood by Chaucer and Petrarch are like try wheels on a bicycle for us today. I mentioned the precocious child not as an insult but as a statement of fact. Children today can write better than Chaucer, technically speaking. The standards of the past are vile garbage.
Down with history!!