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conclusion of the canterbury tales

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Explanation:In trying to arrange the corpus of a medieval poet's works into chronological order when there is no reliable external evidence for dating, as is so often the case, modern scholars tend to work on psychological assumptions: we assume that young writers will be rebellious, mature ones more circumspect, old ones pious and sententious. Thus we arrange any bawdy fictions in a writer's youthful period or student days, accounting for them as wild oats or student rags; this cordons them off and enables us to arrange the more serious (pathetic, tragic, accommodating) fictions where we feel they are most appropriate, that is, later in the poet's career. This is, for example, how Gaston Raynaud tries to take care of all of Eustache Deschamps's facetious verse, even though some occasional pieces are dated by the poet himself as late as 1385 and 1400, when Deschamps was in his late thirties and early fifties and held responsible official positions. Raynaud generalizes:

From 1366 president of the Society of the Quarrelsome under the name of John Quarrel, he took in turn, in his burlesque occasional poems, the titles of Emperor of the Quarrelsome (1370) and Sovereign of the Tipplers (1372). It is the most joyful period in the life of the poet, that of his amorous and often bawdy or more-than-bawdy lyrics when, young and active, free of all bonds, not yet knowing any of the worries about money and health that haunted him throughout much of his life, he enjoyed an optimism that did not last long.[1]