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Geoffrey Chaucer (/ ˈ tʃ ɔː s ər / CHAW-sər; c. 1343 – 25 October 1400) was an English poet, author, and civil servant best known for The Canterbury Tales. [1] He has been called the "father of English literature", or, alternatively, the "father of English poetry". [2]
Arms of Chaucer, paternal arms of Alice de la Pole: Argent, a chief gules overall a lion rampant double queued or, as visible on her monument in Ewelme Church. Alice Chaucer, Duchess of Suffolk LG (c. 1404 –1475) was a granddaughter of the English poet Geoffrey Chaucer.
The Nun's Priest, from the Ellesmere Chaucer (15th century) Chanticleer and the Fox in a mediaeval manuscript miniature "The Nun's Priest's Tale" (Middle English: The Nonnes Preestes Tale of the Cok and Hen, Chauntecleer and Pertelote [1]) is one of The Canterbury Tales by the Middle English poet Geoffrey Chaucer.
Chaucer notes that the column is of lead and iron because they wrote of battles as well as wonders, and iron is the metal of Mars and lead is the metal of Saturn. Statius , on an iron pillar covered in tiger's blood, holding up the fame of Thebes and "cruel Achilles".
The Ellesmere Chaucer, or Ellesmere Manuscript of the Canterbury Tales, is an early 15th-century illuminated manuscript of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, owned by the Huntington Library, in San Marino, California (EL 26 C 9). It is considered one of the most significant copies of the Tales.
The prologue—taking the form of a literary confession—was most probably modelled on that of "Faus Semblaunt" in the medieval French poem Roman de la Rose. [11] The tale of the three rioters is a version of a folk tale with a "remarkably wide range" [12] and has numerous analogues: ancient Buddhist, Persian, [13] and African.
Geoffrey Chaucer wrote the "Prologue of the Wife of Bath's Tale" during the fourteenth century, at a time when the social structure was rapidly evolving, [1] during the reign of Richard II; it was not until the late 1380s to mid-1390s, when Richard's subjects started to take notice of the way in which he was leaning toward bad counsel, causing ...
Geoffrey Chaucer was an English author, poet, philosopher, bureaucrat courtier, and diplomat. Chaucer may also refer to: 2984 Chaucer, a small main belt asteroid; Chaucer (crater), a lunar crater; Chaucer (surname) Chaucer Holdings, a British insurance firm; A variety of rose