Geoffrey Chaucer

Manuscript portrait, 1412 Geoffrey Chaucer ( ; – 25 October 1400) was an English poet, author, and civil servant best known for ''The Canterbury Tales''. He has been called the "father of English literature", or, alternatively, the "father of English poetry". He was the first writer to be buried in what has since come to be called Poets' Corner, in Westminster Abbey. Chaucer also gained fame as a philosopher and astronomer, composing the scientific ''A Treatise on the Astrolabe'' for his 10-year-old son, Lewis. He maintained a career in the civil service as a bureaucrat, courtier, diplomat, and member of parliament.

Among Chaucer's many other works are ''The Book of the Duchess'', ''The House of Fame'', ''The Legend of Good Women'', and ''Troilus and Criseyde''. He is seen as crucial in legitimising the literary use of Middle English when the dominant literary languages in England were still Anglo-Norman French and Latin. Chaucer's contemporary Thomas Hoccleve hailed him as "" (i.e., the first one capable of finding poetic matter in English). Almost two thousand English words are first attested to in Chaucerian manuscripts. Provided by Wikipedia
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    Cuentos de canterbury. / by Chaucer, Geoffrey

    Published 2008
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    Cuentos de canterbury / by Chaucer, Geoffrey

    Published 1962
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    Cuentos de canterbury / by Chaucer, Geoffrey

    Published 1971
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    Cuentos de canterbury / by Chaucer, Geoffrey

    Published 1982
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    Cuentos de Canterbury / by Chaucer, Geoffrey 1343-1400

    Published 1971
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    Canterbury tales / by Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400

    Published 1962
    Book
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    Canterbury tales / by Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400

    Published 1934
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    Canterbury tales / by Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400

    Published 1950
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    The poetical works of Geoffrey Chaucer / by Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400

    Published 1891
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    The Canterbury tales / by Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400

    Published 1951
    Book
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    Canterbury tales / by Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400

    Published 1960
    Book
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    Canterbury tales / by Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400

    Published 1964
    Book
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    Troilus and Cressida / by Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400

    Published 1959
    Book
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    Los cuentos de Cantorbery / by Chaucer, Geoffrey, c. 1340-1400

    Published 1921
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    Cuentos de Canterbury / by Chaucer, Geoffrey, c. 1340-1400

    Published 1988
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    Troilus and Cressida and The Canterbury Tales / by Chaucer, Geoffrey, c. 1340-1400

    Published 1952
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    Cuentos de Canterbury / by Chaucer, Geoffrey, c. 1340-1400

    Published 1946
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    Cuentos de Canterbury / by Chaucer, Geoffrey, c. 1340-1400

    Published 2006
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    El cuento del perdonador / by Chaucer, Geoffrey, c. 1340-1400

    Published 1944
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