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The History of Literature
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Chaucer's Life Record
We have over 500 life records for Chaucer specifically, you know, as well as all the things that surround him. These are documents which are specifically about his life. And so what some of the different records tell us are it's a lot more than just the births and death. So I think the documents do reveal a lotMore than one might expect. But what I found when I was writing the biography was much, much truer to the records to focus on thinking about his imagination than his emotions.
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