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Geoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer was an English poet, writer 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 become Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey.
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culture · English writer (1343–1400) · linguist · poet · lyricist · philosopher · politician · translator · astrologer · writer · also Geoffrey Chaucer, Chaucer
Born 1343 · Died 25 October 1400 · Q5683
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2026· 3 entries
Revelio Labs: Chaucer Syndicates Number of Employees 2026 | Employee Count & Headcount Data
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BBC: Geoffrey Chaucer: the medieval father of English literature
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2024· 1 entry
Wall Street Journal: ‘Geoffrey Chaucer’ Review: A Worldly, Well-Traveled Poet
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2023· 5 entries
The Guardian: No flatulence, no sex in trees: Victorian children’s sanitised Chaucer to go on display
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The Guardian: The Guardian view on the British Library’s digital archive: a new life for Chaucer | Editorial
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The Guardian: Chaucer goes digital as British Library makes works available online
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The Guardian: Geoffrey Chaucer note asking for time off work identified as his handwriting
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The Guardian: The Wife of Bath: A Biography by Marion Turner review – Chaucer’s feminist hero
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2022· 1 entry
The Guardian: Sacred and profane: what Warhol and Chaucer tell us about the huge royal queue | Jonathan Jones
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2020· 1 entry
Mental Floss: New App Lets You Hear Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales in Original 14th-Century English
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2019· 3 entries
The Guardian: Document casts new light on Chaucer 'rape' case
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The Guardian: Lost volume sheds new light on Tolkien’s devotion to Chaucer
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The Guardian: The teenage dandy's tale: how a female biographer saw Chaucer afresh
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2018· 3 entries
The Guardian: Chaucer webchat: expert Dr Marion Turner on his feminism, love for slapstick and more
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The Guardian: How Chaucer weaves high-minded poetry with low comedy
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The Guardian: The Canterbury Tales: Chaucer's 'plein speke' is a raucous read
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2012· 1 entry
The Atlantic: Geoffrey Chaucer Coined 'Twitter'
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1994· 1 entry
The literary critic Harold Bloom placed Chaucer among the greatest Western writers of all time, and in 1997 expounded on William Shakespeare's debt to the author
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1966· 1 entry
And has maintained its position as the pre-eminent journal of Chaucer studies
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1868· 1 entry
Pioneered the establishment of diplomatic editions of Chaucer's primary texts, along with careful accounts of Chaucer's language and prosody
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1400· 1 entry
Died 1400-10-25.
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1343· 1 entry
Born 1343.
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1318· 1 entry
“A long castel with walles white/Be Seynt Johan, on a ryche hil”
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