Ah, Chaucer! I liked him a lot (and we giggled like anything over 'The Miller's Tale' etc - our textbook obligingly contained the complete works!)
As with all the literature,I liked to read it out loud. I can still remember the opening lines to The Knight's Tale -
'Whilom as olde stories tellen us,
There was a duc that highte Theseus...'
(Of course we deliberately pronounced it 'duck' and made surreptitious quacks during the lesson. We were all as daft as brushes!)

I was burdened with German literature too (blasted Goethe - loathed him) and Latin ('Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres'... yawn)

Then there was practically the whole of Shakespoke and Dickens.
I was only sixteen when I sat my A levels (I was younger than the other pupils) and the amount of literature I must have absorbed still amazes me.
Once at Edinburgh Uni I had to wade through blooming Rabbie Burns. All those apostrophes and 'foreign' words. Not to mention 'Les Lais de Marie de France'. (12th Century stuff)

My brain must have been made of elastic in those days!