In Which My Students Break My Heart

16 responses.  3 said they’d read Chaucer“I spent a lot more time studying Shakespeare”

 “Instead of reading his work, we read Hamlet, Shakespeare, etc”

 “Chaucer. . .don’t even know the guy.  We studied other stuff like Shakespeare.”

 “I don’t know much about Geoffrey Chaucer.  I did study ‘The Canterbury Tales’ in high school, but at that time I didn’t know it was written by Chaucer.  I don’t remember much about ‘The Canterbury Tales.’”

 “I have never studied Geoffrey Chaucer.”

 “Thought his work was okay.  Only liked only a couple of the Canterbury Tales”

 “I do not even remember what [it] is really about because it was so difficult to read and comprehend.”

 “No idea who Chaucer is.  I did not study his work at all in school.”

 “I have never heard of Chaucer.”