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| - Geoffrey Chaucer (circa 1345 - 1400) was a 14th century English poet, known as the father of English poetry. Even in today's society, his works continue to touch the hearts of many people. He is most famous for his creativity in writing The Canterbury Tales.
- His great opus, The Canterbury Tales, concerns a group of pilgrims traveling to see the shrine of Thomas Beckett. The various characters tell stories as they travel. The Arthurian themed Wife of Bath's Tale is among the most popular.
- Geoffrey Chaucer (about 1343 – 25 October 1400) was an English writer, nameknown for his work The Canterbury Tales, which showed that English could be as good and worthy as French or Latin. Chaucer was born about 1343, most likely in London. His father and greatfather were both winesellers in London. In his early life, he seems to have worked for the king, and fared all over Europe. Chaucer began work on his greatest work The Canterbury Tales in the 1380s, though he stopped writing in the late 1390s, leaving it unfulfilled at his death.
- El ia ateni fama en sua vive como autor, filosofiste e astronomiste, composante un tese siensal sur la astrolabio per sua fio Lewis ci ia ave des anios. Chaucer ia manteni ance un carera ativa en sua servi publica como burocrata, om de corte, e diplomata. Entre sua obras es La Libro de la Duxesa, La Casa de la Fama, La Lejenda de la Bon Fem e Troilo e Criseida. Sua obra la plu conoseda es La Naras de Canterbury. El ia es un figur esensal en la aseta leteratural de la forma demotica de engles media, en la tempo cuando la linguas leteratural en England ia es franses e latina.
- Geoffrey Chaucer (* um 1343; † 1400) war ein englischer Schriftsteller. Seine berühmten Canterbury Tales wurden mehrfach verfilmt.
- Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343 - 25 October 1400) was an English author, poet, philosopher, bureaucrat, courtier and diplomat. Although he wrote many works, he is best remembered for his unfinished frame narrative The Canterbury Tales. Chaucer is credited by some scholars as being the first author to demonstrate the artistic legitimacy of the vernacular English language.
- Geoffry Chaucer (L'ondra 1343- L'ondra, venerdì 17, 1400) è stato scrittore, poeta, collezionista di francobolli, esattore delle tasse, imitatore di Paperino e molto altro. Viene spesso ricordato come il padre illeggittimo della letteratura inglese e dei suoi tredici figli. Inoltre fu tra i primi scrittori a fare largo uso della lingua volgare nelle sue opere, rendendo l'inglese ancora più detestabile:
- Geoffrey Chaucer -- writer, herald, scholar, accountant, politician, Assistant Secretary to the Department of Horse-driven Vehicles, pianist, laborer, window painterer, orgamist, organist, violinist, cellist, flautist, bassoonist, 14th Century manuscript maker, bar tender, plague dodger, pilgrim, hive worker, saint, heretic, Pope, comptroller, and lover -- was born in the 14th century. Though he was a skilled poet, his true passion was origami. In 1402(ish) he was mistaken as John Wycliffe and assassinated by albino monks. While 82 manuscripts of his work have passed down to us, none of his origami has survived.
- Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343 – October 25, 1400) was a Human author, poet, philosopher, bureaucrat, courtier and diplomat. Although he wrote many works, he was best remembered for his unfinished frame narrative The Canterbury Tales. Tom Paris once had to recite Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales while a teenager. He recalled a line while examining ancient Klingon texts on Boreth and comparing B'Elanna Torres reading them to him reading Middle English. (VOY - Spirit Walk novel: Old Wounds) Chaucer's The Knight's Tale was quoted in the Star Trek Cookbook.
- Geoffrey Chaucer (Galfridus Chaucer, El Jefe, L.L. Cool Geoff) (c. 1343 – 25 October 1400) was an English author, poet, philosopher, bureaucrat, courtier and diplomat. Although he wrote many works, he is best remembered for his unfinished frame narrative The Canterbury Tales. Sometimes called the "father of English literature", Chaucer is widely credited as first demonstrating the artistic legitimacy of the vernacular English language, rather than French or Latin. Chaucer's works were among the earliest printed in English, which did much to establish his southern dialect as "correct" written English. He is buried in the Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey. He is in fact the reason it is called the Poet's Corner. Of course he owed his Westminster Abbey grave to his services to the crown not
- Chaucer was present in London for Wat Tyler's rebellion. One of his works included The Canterbury Tales, which Barbara Wright loved. He was a favourite of King Richard II of England, who was overthrown by Henry Plantagenet, who became King Henry IV, in 1399. He often mocked the Catholic Church in his work. After the Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Arundel was defeated, Chaucer went into hiding in Wales under an assumed name. His tomb was in Westminster Abbey. However, it was placed there long after his death. Ian Chesterton once visited it. (AUDIO: The Doctor's Tale)
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