ENGLISH literature can boast of but one name greater than that of Chaucer; but to the lofty position which he occupies on its rolls is not due in the slightest the little acquaintance we have with his ...

"Chaucer: Ackroyd's Brief Lives." By Peter Ackroyd. Nan A. Talese-Doubleday. 188 Pages. $19.95. The great medieval English poet Geoffrey Chaucer could effortlessly shift from high tragedy to low ...

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 ...

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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 ...

University of Melbourne provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation AU. In our series Art for Trying Times, authors nominate a work they turn to for solace or perspective during this ...

Of all the writings produced by Chaucer, or ascribed to him, the prose Testament of Love is the most wearisome to read and the hardest to understand. Nevertheless, it forms the foundation upon which ...