Reading C17 English is an investment, it gets easier with each new author. The payoff is freedom from historical provincialism. Only reading contemporary author

Reading C17 English is an investment, it gets easier with each new author. The payoff is freedom from historical provincialism. Only reading contemporary authors is like only knowing people from your home town. By the way, have you read Sir Gawain and the Green Knight? It's really hard - you are basically looking up every word in the back - but it is a wonderful poem in the alliterative style.