text:  Might a poet if it were worth while who had imbued himself with antiquity and with Chaucer depart more freely from him and yet more effectually reproduce him? Imitating not erasing the colours of the old time--untying the strict chain that binds you to the fourteenth century but impressing on you candour clearness shrewdness ingenuous susceptibility simplicity ANTIQUITY! A creative translator or imitator--Chaucer born again a century and a half later