Twenty years ago, Donald Howard, the author of this biography, thought no such work was possible because there were so few records of Geoffrey Chaucer, a 14th Century poet who lived and died before ...
The National Book Critics Circle gave its annual awards Monday to the authors of a biography of poet Geoffrey Chaucer and a history of the atomic bomb. Novelist Philip Roth was also among the winners ...
Geoffrey Chaucer has written 1 shows including Canterbury Tales (Source Material).
Before "The Canterbury Tales," Geoffrey Chaucer was a teenage fashion plate, prisoner of war, a traveler. We dig into a new biography. On 4th July, 1378, a bead-maker, Simon Wylde de Estland, robbed a ...
The first sentence of the epilogue to Marion Turner’s biography of Geoffrey Chaucer (ca. 1342-1400) aptly summarizes the poet’s legacy: “Chaucer became a monumental poet, enclosed in a monumental tomb ...
Virgile, Ovide, Omer, Lucan, and Stace. (V.1786-92) [2] [5] For notice of this reference, see the brief mention in the note to vv. 1789-92 in the Riverside Chaucer, C.D. Benson’s edition of F.N.
A top historian today hit back at Leicester University's plans to drop literary giant Geoffrey Chaucer in favour of replacement modules focused on race and gender. Plans emerged last week to shelve ...
Two scholars have made new conclusions about a sermon from the late 12th century, which reframes some confusing references, made by the 14th century English poet Geoffrey Chaucer. And now for a tale ...
This show originally aired on May 02, 2019. Before "The Canterbury Tales," Geoffrey Chaucer was a teenage fashion plate, prisoner of war, a traveler. We dig into a new biography. On 4th July, 1378, a ...
"Now I beg all those that listen to this little treatise [Canterbury Tales], or read it, that if there be anything in it that pleases them, they thank our Lord Jesus Christ for it, from whom proceeds ...