Landes
Landes , region, SW France. It is a vast, flat, nearly triangular tract of sand and marshland, stretching along the Atlantic coast for more than 100 mi (160 km) between the Adour River and the Médoc region and reaching inland as far as 40 mi (60 km). It thus covers most of Landes dept. and part of Gironde dept. and converges on Nérac (Lot-et-Garonne). Formerly, sheep grazing was the only occupation in this insalubrious region, but much of the land has been reclaimed through drainage and the planting of pine forests. Agriculture is progressing and lumber and resins are important products. The chief towns are Mont-de-Marsan, Dax, and Arcachon, a popular resort.
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Chaucer's mutability in Spenser's Mutabilitie Cantos.(Geoffrey Chaucer, Edmund Spenser)
Magazine article from: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900; 1/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...Spenser's continuity with Geoffrey Chaucer, whether in terms...which Spenser is removed from Chaucer in time and thought, especially...separates Tudor England from Chaucer's "mistie time," particularly...has chosen not to imitate "Chaucers wordes (which by reason of...5) While praising ...
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GEOFFREY CHAUCER; Examining the varied life of the poet who wrote "The Canterbury Tales.".(BOOKS)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 1/9/2005; 700+ words
; ...WASHINGTON TIMES The pilgrims in Geoffrey Chaucer's great work, "The Canterbury...biographer Peter Ackroyd sees Chaucer as a poet of springtime rather...as to what might have gone on in Chaucer's mind and heart can only be...
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Retelling the classic Tales Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales: A Retelling
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Herald; 3/29/2009; ; 700+ words
; Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales: A Retelling by Peter Ackroyd (Penguin...they're living, be it a dozy shire, brutal gulag or sink estate. Geoffrey Chaucer, the earliest of the English literary storytellers, was clearly...
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Henry of Lancaster and Geoffrey Chaucer: Anglo-French and middle English in fourteenth-century England.
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 4/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...lives and works of Lancaster and Chaucer embody the need to redress this...to medieval English history and Geoffrey Chaucer to medieval English literature...being about thirty years older than Chaucer, so their periods of activity...
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Commentary: Remembering Geoffrey Chaucer
Transcript from: NPR All Things Considered; 10/27/2000; ; 528 words
; 00-00-0000 Commentary: Remembering Geoffrey Chaucer Host: LINDA WERTHEIMER Time: 8:00-9:00 PM...to commentator Edward Wheatley. EDWARD WHEATLEY: Geoffrey Chaucer changed the course of literature by writing brilliant...
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 "The Dallas Morning News (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service)")
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Olde case files: Scholars try to solve a medieval mystery: the fate of Geoffrey Chaucer.
Newspaper article from: The Dallas Morning News (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service); 2/2/2005; 700+ words
; ...Jerome Weeks ``Who Murdered Chaucer? A Medieval Mystery'' by Terry...larger in medieval literature than Geoffrey Chaucer, although to students that's...woman who died several years before Geoffrey, leaving no evidence of foul play...
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Chaucer's The Complaint of Mars. (analysis of a Geoffrey Chaucer poem)
Magazine article from: The Explicator; 3/22/1996; ; 700+ words
; In Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Complaint of Mars," three...lady, Venus. On the second level, Chaucer figures Mars and Venus as gods of classical...level of pessimism not often noted in Chaucer's shorter poetry. As the "story...
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 "Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK)")
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Port's favourite son and chaucer Pilgrim ; Nearly 200 miles from the Westminster Abbey tomb of Geoffrey Chaucer lies an elaborate brass engraving that marks the grave of a Westcountry port's favourite son.
Newspaper article from: Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK); 6/20/2008; 700+ words
; ...from the Westminster Abbey tomb of Geoffrey Chaucer lies an elaborate brass engraving...one of the early benefactors. Chaucer and Hawley were men of exactly...fields of endeavour. But while Chaucer achieved huge and enduring celebrity...
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Profile: Canadian Baba Brinkman performs rap versions of Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales"
Transcript from: NPR All Things Considered; 7/28/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...Canadian Baba Brinkman performs rap versions of Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales" Host: ROBERT SIEGEL...it's the new millennium, and about time that Geoffrey Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" were set to rap music...
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Geoffrey Chaucer: Troilus and Criseyde.(Editions of texts)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Medium Aevum; 9/22/2005; 503 words
; Geoffrey Chaucer: Troilus and Criseyde, ed. Barry Windeatt...12.99 [pounds sterling]. To see Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde printed as a...only for the evident popular assertion of Chaucer's excellence hut also for the material...
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Chaucer, Geoffrey
Encyclopedia entry from: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography
Geoffrey Chaucer Born: c. 1345 London, England Died...Called the father of English poetry, Geoffrey Chaucer is ranked as one of the greatest...marriage The exact date and place of Geoffrey Chaucer's birth are not known. The...
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Geoffrey Chaucer
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Geoffrey Chaucer The English author and courtier Geoffrey Chaucer (ca. 1345-1400) was one of the greatest poets...and Troilus and Criseyde. The exact date and place of Geoffrey Chaucer's birth are not known. The evidence suggests...
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CHAUCER, Geoffrey
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
CHAUCER, Geoffrey [1343?–1400] Poet of MIDDLE...record remains of the education that gave Chaucer lifelong familiarity with Latin and several...in-law; in 1360, the king paid Chaucer's ransom after his capture by the French...
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Chauver, Geoffery
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...marriages. The earliest records of Geoffrey Chaucer show him in 1357 in the household...After holding many public offices, Chaucer became controller of customs for...Robinson, ed., The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer (Boston, 1957), with...
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John Lydgate
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...s life. He was a professed disciple of Geoffrey Chaucer, and for many years his fame rivaled Chaucer's. Lydgate became a Benedictine monk...wrote The Siege of Thebes, a tribute to Geoffrey Chaucer and, in form, a continuation of...
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