The life of Geoffrey Chaucer (ca. 1340-1400), often labeled “the father of English poetry,” ought to be an open book: He is mentioned almost 500 times in contemporary records, far more than ...

Greg Jenner is joined in medieval England by Professor Marion Turner and comedian Mike Wozniak to learn all about Geoffrey Chaucer, author of the Canterbury Tales. Since the fifteenth century, Chaucer ...

University of Melbourne provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation AU. In our series Art for Trying Times, authors nominate a work they turn to for solace or perspective during this ...

Criseyde and Her Maidens Listening to a Reading, by Warwick Goble, from The Complete Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, 1912. Alamy As a millennial and a teacher of millennials, I’m growing weary of ...

People have been reading Chaucer’s poetry for over 600 years now. Such long-lasting popularity has in part to do with the great variety of his writings. There’s a lot to like (and dislike): deeply ...

For almost all his life, writing was not Geoffrey Chaucer’s day job. The 14th-century English poet, born a vintner’s son, began work young and changed jobs often. He was first a lackey, then the agent ...

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Selection of Chaucer's works, including The Canterbury Tales and other shorter poems. Includes an introduction to Middle English. Requisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, ...