496 The Wife of Bath (with Marion Turner)
The History of Literature
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Chaucer, European Life
As far as we know, he never made a penny from his poetry. He didn't make money from his poetry at all. There's always a mystery, isn't there, about how a genius is able to write in the way that they do? It isn't something that we can break down into because of this. Therefore, they wrote this extraordinary work. We could do it by numbers then. Everyone would do it. I think that was a particular spark, a particular inspiration for him to think, well, what can I do with English?"
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