I've been trying to decipher Chaucer's Canterbury tales and am having the most difficult time. The words are so... well foreign. I found online at SparkNotes a "No Fear" version of the Canterbury Tales. They helped so much. I like that it tries to maintain the original spellings of names but fixes the spellings of pretty much everything else. I don't know what I would do without SparkNotes. I have read the No Fear and all of the summaries and analysises (analysi?) for the Canterbury Tales. I hope I have gained some kind of higher understanding.
When I read Beowulf I was so glad that the language was not as horrible as I expected. I was relieved to think that British Literature wouldn't be so hard after all... and now we're on the Canterbury Tales. They are killing me. But oh well. Thanks again SparkNotes.
