Chaucer, Geoffrey

A fourteenth-century English poet, called the father of English poetry: he was the first great poet to write in the English language. Chaucer's best-known work is The Canterbury Tales.

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There is also a cleverly modelled figure of Geoffrey Chaucer.

In the dwelling over the gate, according to Loftie, the poet Geoffrey Chaucer lived in 1374.

There is no clearer or safer exponent of the life of the 14th century, as far as he describes it, than Geoffrey Chaucer.

Geoffrey Chaucer was the son of a London vintner, and seems most probably to have been born in 1340.

It is this new gladness of a great people which utters itself in the verse of Geoffrey Chaucer.

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