Chaucer, Geoffrey
Chaucer, Geoffrey (1346–1400) English medieval poet. His writings are remarkable for their range, narrative sense, power of characterization, and humour. They include
The Book of the Duchess (1369),
The House of Fame (
c.1375),
The Parliament of Fowls, and
Troilus and Criseyde (both
c.1385). His most famous and popular work is
The Canterbury Tales (
c.1387–1400), an extraordinarily varied collection of narrative poems, each told by one of a group of pilgrims while travelling to the shrine of Thomas à Becket. Ranging from the courtly “Knight's Tale” to the bawdy “Miller's Tale”, they provide a panoramic view of 14th-century English society and are a landmark in medieval fiction. Influenced by both French and Italian literary traditions, Chaucer's writings exercised a powerful influence on the future direction of
English literature, not least in confirming
se English as its principal language.
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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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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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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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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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The Complete Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 2/1/2006; 471 words
; ...The complete Canterbury tales of Geoffrey Chaucer. Ed. by John H. Fisher and Mark...Paperback PR1866 This volume presents Chaucer's Canterbury Tales in a format...The Complete Poetry and Prose of Geoffrey Chaucer, also edited by Fisher...
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Magic in Medieval Romance from Chretien de Troyes to Geoffrey Chaucer.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 10/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...Romance from Chretien de Troyes to Geoffrey Chaucer. By MICHELLE SWEENEY. Dublin...texts under discussion' include Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum...sources identified as influential on Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum...
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She, This in Blak: Vision, Truth, and Will in Geoffrey Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 8/1/2006; 465 words
; ...vision, truth, and will in Geoffrey Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde. Hill...University, Hill takes a fresh look at Chaucer's Middle English Trojan romance...perception and judgment. He finds that Chaucer participated in the scholastic...
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Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales: A Selection.(EDITIONS OF TEXTS)(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Medium Aevum; 3/22/2009; 528 words
; Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales: A Selection, ed. and trans. Colin Wilcockson...are given at the foot of the page. The extensive introduction treats Chaucer's life and offers critical discussion of the texts presented here...
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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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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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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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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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Kelmscott Press
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...The masterpiece of the press was The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer (1896), a folio with illustrations by Sir...of the Historyes of Troye (1892); and the Chaucer type, named for the Chaucer folio. The Chaucer type is smaller than the...
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