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Things Declined After Chaucer

Of the courtly works produced in England during the 15th century, H.S. Bennet has this to say (p.125 of OHEL, vol.II, p.1):

“It was the hey-day of the poetaster, who, with little feeling for verse and no intellectual powers of any consequence, beat out his numbers with growing incompetence.�

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