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Geoffrey Chaucer (Critical Survey of Short Fiction)
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In addition to the works listed above, Geoffrey Chaucer composed Boece (c. 1380), a translation of Boethius’s The Consolation of Philosophy (523), which Boethius wrote while in prison. Chaucer also wrote an astrological study, A Treatise on the Astrolabe (1387-1392), and a miscellaneous volume entitled Works (1957).
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Geoffrey Chaucer is generally agreed to be the most important writer in English literature
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