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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]
Geoffrey Chaucer, posthumously published: . The Canterbury Tales, the Pynson edition (see Canturbyry Tales 1477) [1]; The House of Fame, publication year uncertain, Pynson edition (see also The House of Fame 1483) [1]
Chaucer may have read the Decameron during his first diplomatic mission to Italy in 1372. [citation needed] Chaucer used a wide variety of sources, but some, in particular, were used frequently over several tales, among them the Bible, Classical poetry by Ovid, and the works of contemporary Italian writers Petrarch and Dante. Chaucer was the ...
The book for which he is chiefly remembered is his posthumously published study of Geoffrey of Monmouth, The Legendary History of Britain. [2] [3] Tatlock was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1937 and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1939. [4] [5]
Musaeum Clausum or Bibliotheca Abscondita (published posthumously in 1683) Deuel, Leo. Testaments of Time: The Search for Lost Manuscripts and Records (New York: Knopf, 1965) Dudbridge, Glen. Lost Books of Medieval China (London: The British Library, 2000) Kelly, Stuart. The Book of Lost Books (Viking, 2005) ISBN 0-670-91499-1; Peter, Hermann.
Title page of Urry's edition of Chaucer's works, published posthumously in 1721. John Urry (1666 in Dublin, Ireland – 18 March 1715 in Oxford, Great Britain) was a noted literary editor and medieval scholar of Scottish family.
The House of Fame (Hous of Fame in the original spelling) is a Middle English poem by Geoffrey Chaucer, probably written between 1374 and 1385, making it one of his earlier works. [1] It was most likely written after The Book of the Duchess, but its chronological relation to Chaucer's other early poems is uncertain. [2]