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The domain name has been sold by Mr. Lemkowitz to a subsidiary of News Corp ( News Corporation)
Mr. Lemkowitz
will still be editor/publisher until such time that he will not be editor/publisher/photographer and local radio host. That
time will not come soon as he works CHEAP !
This site is under new construction as of March 5, 2010
All
photography shown on this site will be that of Mr. Lemkowitz our ed/pub except where indicated.
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GEOFFREY
CHAUCER'S
THE
CANTERBURY TALES (reviewed by B. Lemkowitz )
A RETELLING
BY PETER ACKROYD ( VIKING BOOKS $35 )
( review to be uploaded online by March 15, 2010 )
Now, as every English
schoolboy knows..........
Whan that Aprille with his shoures soote
The droughte of Marche
hath pierced to the roote
And bathed every veyne in swich liquor
Of which virtu engendered
is the flour
in the retelling.............
' When the soft sweet showers of April, reach
the roots of all things, refreshing the parched earth
nourishing every sapling and every seedling, then
humankind rises up in joy and expectation....'
I was sitting in my
backyard last summer with my friend Larry the rug dealer when out of nowhere he starts reciting the prologue to the Canterbury
Tales in the original Middle English..... " When that April with his showers soote..." Holy Shit said I
.. and almost fell off the bench, I was stunned, not that Larry is a dope or something, but how many times in your life do
you hear that narration..? I won't get into the details but what he uttered are a few of the most famous lines in
all of literature, especially to an Englishman.
Peter Ackroyd, the great English critic,historian and writer has
turned his hand to a retelling in prose of The Canterbury Tales, arguably the greatest poem in the English language.
The U.K. Observer has described the new prose version as a ' new crib for generations of students to come'
Geoffrey Chaucer ( 1343-1400) English poet and diplomat is creditied as being the first author to demonstrate the
legitimacy of the vernacular
We are sorry that Knopf and Pantheon
Books... ( Pantheon being an imprint) do not find us to be a legitimate reviewer of books despite the fact that we have
been doing this for 33 years both in NYC and now for 10 years in the mid-Hudson Valley...shame on you !!!
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