- Geoffrey Chaucer (circa 1380). Ful wys is he that kan hymselven knowe!. Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343 – October 25, 1400) was an English author, poet, philosopher...
- Both Chaucer's father and grandfather had minor standing at court, and Geoffrey Chaucer's own name appears in the household accounts of Elizabeth...
- Geoffrey Chaucer was born in London sometime between 1340 and 1344 to John Chaucer and Agnes Copton.
- Contemporaries called Geoffrey Chaucer the “father of the English literature”, and successors treat his heritage as the greatest legacy of the Middle Ages.
- GEOFFREY CHAUCER, English poet. The name Chaucer, a French form of the Latin calcearius, a shoemaker, is found in London and the eastern counties as...
- Geoffrey Chaucer was the greatest poet of the Middle Ages, and is regarded as the Father of English literature.
- Most scholars believe that Geoffrey Chaucer had foreseen the political upheaval that was to follow and so he made arrangement for leaving London.
- The exact date and place of Geoffrey Chaucer's birth are not known. The evidence suggests, however, that he was born about 1345, or a year or two earlier...
- unfavourable one for him, both politically and financially. 6. GEOFFREY CHAUCER. In the same year he began working on The Canterbury Tales.
- These three principal metres are observed in the works of Geoffrey Chaucer. The principal essence of Chaucer’s poetry is musicality.