Chaucer Blogs

Not only does Samuel Pepys keep a blog, but I recently learned that Geoffrey Chaucer has also been blogging (in middle English, no less!) since March.

Particularly noteworthy is the April 9 blog entry, in which he reveals his plan for "a worke of grete literarye merit, and of much sentence and solaas. And school-childer alle across thys grete erth shal reden of thes tales and thanke me for the delite they haue, much more delite than the distiches of catoun shal euere brynge, or even the grapes of wrathe."

What can I say? I'm an ex-English teacher. I like stuff like this.