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Chaucer

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Chau·cer  (chôsr), Geoffrey 1340?-1400.
English poet regarded as the greatest literary figure of medieval England. His works include The Book of the Duchess (1369), Troilus and Criseyde (c. 1385), and his masterwork, The Canterbury Tales (1387-1400).
Chau·ceri·an (chô-sîr-n) adj. & n.
Chaucer [ˈtʃɔːsə]
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(Biographies / Chaucer, Geoffrey (?1340-1400) M, English, WRITING: poet) Geoffrey. ?1340-1400, English poet, noted for his narrative skill, humour, and insight, particularly in his most famous work, The Canterbury Tales. He was influenced by the continental tradition of rhyming verse. His other works include Troilus and Criseyde, The Legende of Good Women, and The Parlement of Foules
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Noun1.Chaucer - English poet remembered as author of the Canterbury Tales (1340-1400)Chaucer - English poet remembered as author of the Canterbury Tales (1340-1400)
Geoffrey Chaucer
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Chaucer was a poet, and is generally looked upon as the first great English poet.
English Literature For Boys And Girls by Marshall, H.E. View in context
In fact, I may fairly class Chaucer among my passions, for I read him with that sort of personal attachment I had for Cervantes, who resembled him in a certain sweet and cheery humanity.
My Literary Passions by Howells,William Dean View in context
It is the assertion, the development, the product of those very different indispensable qualities of poetry, in the presence [8] of which the English is equal or superior to all other modern literature--the native, sublime, and beautiful, but often wild and irregular, imaginative power in English poetry from Chaucer to Shakespeare, with which Professor Minto deals, in his Characteristics of English Poets (Blackwood), lately reprinted.
The Guardian by Pater, Walter Horatio View in context
 
 
 
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