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 ...

The Wife of Bath was dreamed up by Geoffrey Chaucer in The Canterbury Tales more than 600 years ago. She has captured countless imaginations since. The character known for her lusty appetites, gossipy ...

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 ...