The Life of Geoffrey Chaucer (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Derek Pearsall
- First Published: 1992
- Type of Work: Literary biography
- Time of Work: Approximately 1340-1400
- Setting: England, France, Italy, and Spain
- Principal Characters: Geoffrey Chaucer, Richard II, Henry IV, John of Gaunt
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: France or French people, Poetry or poets, England or English people, Italy or Italians, Middle Ages, Bureaucracy or bureaucrats, Spain or Spanish people, Royal courts or courtiers, Tutors or tutoring, Fourteenth century
- Locales: France, Spain, England, Italy
Geoffrey Chaucer is universally accepted as the major English poet of the Middle Ages, author of The Canterbury Tales (1387-1400), the long and ambitious romance Troilus and Criseyde (1382), and a string of other surviving works in verse and prose. His importance was recognized soon after his death, as is shown by the careful preservation of his works and the large number of manuscripts in which they survive. His collected works were first printed in 1539 and have remained available to readers ever since. For centuries he has been one of the most influential authors ever...
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