Geoffrey Chaucer is the author of the Canterbury Tales, a collection of stories written in the late 14th century. Chaucer is often considered the father of English literature and is known for his influential role in shaping the English language. His work remains a significant part of literary history.
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The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories written by Geoffrey Chaucer in the late 14th century. It is a work of literature, not a painting.
Geoffrey Chaucer did not train as a soldier. He was a poet, philosopher, bureaucrat, and diplomat in the 14th century, best known for his work "The Canterbury Tales."
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Geoffrey Chaucer had at least one sibling, a brother named Robert Chaucer.
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Geoffrey Chaucer's first significant work was "The Book of the Duchess," which he wrote in memory of John of Gaunt's first wife, Blanche. This poem is a lament for her death and showcases Chaucer's early talent in poetry and storytelling.
About 1343 died 1400
Nature built the most musical mind in ancient England in Geoffrey Chaucer.
In the Canterbury Tales a group of pilgrims are traveling to the shrine of St Thomas a Becket at Canterbury Cathedral. The pilgrims decide that each of them will tell two stories on the way there, and two more on the way back - taking turns. Chaucer never completed his work, so most of the pilgrims tell only one tale - but we find out a lot about the sort of person telling the story by the kind of story they choose, and also by how they tell it.