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 ...

Telegraph.co.uk's week-long series celebrating the great poets of the English canon. Sam Leith begins with the 14th-century poet, Geoffrey Chaucer Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343-1400): Almost certainly the ...

People have been reading Chaucer’s poetry for over 600 years now. Such long-lasting popularity has in part to do with the great variety of his writings. There’s a lot to like (and dislike): deeply ...

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 ...

The English poet Geoffrey Chaucer was no stranger to crisis: he was born in the wake of the Black Death, the plague that killed about half of the population of Europe; and he lived through war with ...

Say “Chaucer,” and most people think of the Canterbury Tales, or perhaps the 2001 jousting pastiche A Knight’s Tale. But yesterday, on the 612th anniversary of the legendary English poet’s death, most ...

Poets there were before Chaucer,— vixere fortes ante Agamemnona, — but search Rymer from cord to clasp and you shall find no documentary evidence of any one of them wearing the leaf or receiving the ...

He's widely considered to be the Father of English literature and today the first ever statue of Geoffrey Chaucer was unveiled. A bronze sculpture of the poet, who's best known for his work The ...

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 ...