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Geoffrey Chaucer

(c. 1343—1400) poet and administrator

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The Oxford Companion to Chaucer

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With one arguable exception, none of the manuscripts of Chaucer's writing was written by the poet himself (the possible exception

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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The Oxford Companion to Chaucer

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Neither the date nor the place of Chaucer's birth are known for certain. Since in 1386 he described himself as

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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The Oxford Companion to Chaucer

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(see also book). If the poet's private life remains much more elusive than his public life, we can

criticism of Chaucer I

criticism of Chaucer I   Reference library

The Oxford Companion to Chaucer

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(to the earlier 20th c.). ‘No other author has been commented on in English so regularly and extensively over so

criticism of Chaucer II:

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The Oxford Companion to Chaucer

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since 1930. The year 1933 can be taken, conveniently if rather arbitrarily, as the date when ‘modern’ criticism of

Chaucer, Geoffrey

Chaucer, Geoffrey (1346–1400)   Quick reference

World Encyclopedia

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His writings are remarkable for their range, narrative sense, power of characterization, and humour. They include The Book of the

Chaucer, Geoffrey

Chaucer, Geoffrey (1343?–1400)   Reference library

Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages

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(1343?–1400)

Founder of modern English poetry, Chaucer is also an example of the rise of the middle class

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