Chaucer as Teaching Aid in the Colonies
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Title
Chaucer as Teaching Aid in the Colonies
Subject
Chaucer, children’s education, education, child, children, juvenile, Prioress’s Tale, tabula rasa, Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Ovid, Chaucerian, Chaucerian source, classical education
Description
The opinion piece,“Catallictics [mutatas dicere formas] An Introduction to New Speculations [In nova fert animus] takes it Latin from the first lines of Ovid’s Metamorphoses (In nova fert animus mutatas dicere formas corpora; I tell now of bodies changed to new (other) forms [HH]). The quoted Chaucerian text is extracted from its context or narrative of the Prioress’s Tale. Chaucer relied on Ovid, as did other medieval writers, but in this instance, Ovid, Chaucer, Catallus coalesce to showcase the sort of knowledge the well-educated new colonials imported from England.
Creator
Grey, Gaffer
Source
Colonial literary journal and weekly miscellany of useful information, vol. 1. 32 1845, p. 75-6
Date
1845
Rights
No Copyright
Format
Hyperlink
Language
English
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Citation
“Chaucer as Teaching Aid in the Colonies,” Medievalism in Australian Cultural Memory, accessed February 1, 2023, https://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/251.