Chaucer

The story of the swan's last song found a place in the works of other writers, including the early English writers Chaucer and Shakespeare.

Domestic scholars are in broad agreement that Chaucer has been a humanist thinker and his works are thought to be anti-religious.

It was the language of the great poet Chaucer (c1340-1400), but it would still be difficult for native English speakers to understand today.

English as a principal language of literature did not evolve until the 14th century ( Chaucer ).

Most people already find it difficult to read Chaucer and a proliferation of new idiolects may soon make Shakespeare equally inaccessible.

Here Warren Scheer reads the very beginning of Geoffrey Chaucer's great poem, "The Canterbury Tales" as it was written in Middle English.

Chaucer is buried in "Poet's Corner" , as might have been expected.

Chaucer, Shakespeare, Hemmingway and Churchill were all men of letters.

Somerset intuits that the killer is using books as the inspiration for his crimes, and studies Dante, Milton and Chaucer for hints.

This thesis adopts a combined approach in study of Chaucer's view on women in his creation of the Wife of Bath.

In the Canterbury Tales, Chaucer created a comprehensive realistic picture of the English society and a whole gallery of vivid characters.

(Chaucer's writing was greatly, if subtly, effective in influencing the moral attitudes of his readers).

Author Geoffrey Chaucer died in London.

What aids there were to lighten labour were immemorial , like the mill, which was already ancient in Chaucer's time .

Perhaps the most famous was written by Geoffrey Chaucer, a poet who lived in London and died there in fourteen hundred.

SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: English language experts say Geoffrey Chaucer was the first important writer to use the English language.

It is tempting to say it was ever thus, summoning Caesar or Chaucer to prove it.

Chaucer's wealth of detail unfolds the robust life of an age.

Chaucer's name itself shows the prestige that French had in England at the time: Chaucer is French for "shoemaker. "

Only the parish priest earned Chaucer's praise as a kind and hard-working Christian, but he was poor like his brother the ploughman .

Chaucer and Shakespeare romanticized it in their work, and it gained popularity throughout Britain and the rest of Europe.

Chaucer was a splitter, and even Shakespeare had a go.

but only became connected with romantic love in the Middle Ages with the help of poet Geoffrey Chaucer.

They later migrated into the stories of Chaucer in England and Boccaccio in Italy.

I followed my teacher's recommendations and bought the book by Chaucer.

Chaucer's most famous work is "The Canterbury Tales, " written more than six hundred years ago.

Woolf's literary models were acute social observers like Chekhov and Chaucer.

In 1381, Chaucer composed a poem in honor of the engagement between England's Richard II and Anne of Bohemia.

I wonder if she recites Chaucer while she presses her husband's shirts.

Geoffrey Chaucer occupies a unique place in English literature .

The writer was Geoffrey Chaucer , and he knew how to spell.

This is the height of British table manners five centuries before Mrs Beeton. And Chaucer, of course, is laughing at this over-refinement.

Chaucer flourished at the end of the 14th century.

Chaucer is considered the father of English poetry.

We soon believe what we desire. ---Geoffrey Chaucer, English poet of the Middles Ages.

Yes, that Geoffrey Chaucer, in 1391, to his little Lewis, his 11 year old son.

The Canterbury Tales was written by Chaucer.

Chaucer is the father of English poetry.

Chaucer is ~ed the Father of English Poetry.

It's all very well to read books by non-western authors, but don't discard Shakespeare and Chaucer.

The Canterbury Tales was written by Geoffrey Chaucer in 1387.

Chaucer has been called the Father of English Poetry by successive generations.

Chaucer is regarded as the first short story teller and the first modern poet in English literature.

Cuillaume had treated woman with adoration, and Jean with mockery, and Chaucer remembered both ways in his own verses

EDUCATION And gladly would learn, and gladly teach. ( Chaucer, British poet)

And gladly would learn , and gladly teach . ( Chaucer , British poet)

Chaucer introduced the rhymed couplet of iambic pentameter

Chaucer . . . not only came to douBt the worth of his extraordinary Body of work, But repudiated it

Chaucer's Dream Poetry and the Medieval Tradition of Dream Vision

The Canterbury Tales --- Geoffery Chaucer

Chaucer and the Revival of Tragic Spirit in Late Medieval Europe

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

Character and Psychology in Chaucer

Ironical Humor in Chaucer's Language Art

Chaucer's View on Women In the Story of the Wife of Bath