We know a great deal more about Geoffrey Chaucer than we do about any other early writer in English, because he was a civil servant who played an active and responsible part in public affairs for most ...

For a week of English poetry about the month of April, it’s impossible not to begin with “Whan that Aprille with his shoures soote”: When that April with his showers sweet. The poetic voice of ...

Chaucer himself was a translator, people forget, his most important work along those lines being “The Romance of the Rose” and Boethius’ “The Consolation of Philosophy.” Some of the tales that appear ...

Library photographs and uploads its entire collection of manuscripts by author of The Canterbury Tales The entire collection of Geoffrey Chaucer’s works held by the British Library is being made ...

“Chaucer’s Tale: 1386 and the Road to Canterbury” by Paul Strohm (Viking Penguin Group, 283 pages, $28.95) Geoffrey Chaucer, who died obscurely in 1400, achieved, rather quickly, a posthumous renown ...

Biographers of Chaucer are faced with obstacles, not least a dearth of juicy information concerning his life. Chaucer may have left a big public footprint compared with other medieval authors – his ...

In a Canadian high school years ago, I giggled through the Wife of Bath's shameless monologue: "For certeyn, olde dotard, by youre leve, ye shul have queynte right ynough at eve." Such provocative ...

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