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The History of Literature
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Chaucer's Dream Poem, the House of Fame
In Chaucer's time, people were not usually sitting on their own silently reading poetry. It would have been being read out sometimes perhaps in an inn or a quarterly setting and discussing it. I think he's saying that you need both the old authors as well as voices around you to be able to write poems.
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