Quotes

A learned, and a Poet never went
More famous yet twixt Po and silver Trent.
Chaucer (of all admir’d) the Story gives,
There constant to Eternity it lives

William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
and John Fletcher (1579-1625)

The single most important precursor for [William Shakespeare] is Geoffrey Chaucer, and it has to do with the creation of character

Harold Bloom (1930–2019)
Yale University

The … first founder and embellisher of ornate eloquence in our English

William Caxton (c. 1422–c. 1491)