The life of Geoffrey Chaucer (ca. 1340-1400), often labeled “the father of English poetry,” ought to be an open book: He is mentioned almost 500 times in contemporary records, far more than ...

Few figures in our culture are regarded with as much reverence as Geoffrey Chaucer, said Francesca Peacock in The Daily Telegraph. The author of "The Canterbury Tales" is remembered "as a ...

For almost all his life, writing was not Geoffrey Chaucer’s day job. The 14th-century English poet, born a vintner’s son, began work young and changed jobs often. He was first a lackey, then the agent ...

Geoffrey Chaucer, often regarded as the first great poet in English, drops references at two points in his works to an older poem or story, the Tale of Wade, that seems to have needed no explanation ...

A new book traces the “biography” of Geoffrey Chaucer’s most enduring character and her impact on the course of English literature. Credit...Culture Club/Getty Images Supported by By Erin Maglaque ...

Vol. 56, No. 4, SPECIAL ISSUE: The Ethical Challenge of Chaucerian Scholarship in the Twenty-First Century (2021), pp. 322-340 (19 pages) ABSTRACT: Geoffrey Chaucer's biographers have typically ...