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	Geoffrey Chaucer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Chaucer was buried in Westminster Abbey in London, as was his right owing to the jobs he had performed and the new house he had leased nearby on 24 December 1399.
		Chaucer is known for metrical innovation, inventing the rhyme royal, and he was one of the first English poets to use the five-stress line, the iambic pentameter, in his work, with only a few anonymous short works using it before him.
		Chaucer did compile this booke as a comfort to himselfe after great griefs conceiued for some rash attempts of the commons, with whome he had ioyned, and thereby was in feare to loose the fauour of his best friends.
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		Chaucer was buried in Westminster Abbey in London, as was their condign owing to the jobs he had performed and the distinct abode he had leased nearby on 24 December 1399.
		Chaucer is confessed for metrical innovation, inventing the rhyme royal, and he was atypical of the inceptive English poets to fitness the five-stress line, the iambic pentameter, in their work, with only a occasional undesignated bare tasks using it before him.
		Chaucer did collate booke as a cosiness to himselfe after inclusive griefs conceiued for some rash attempts of the Database, with whome he had ioyned, and thereby was in feare to unfastened the fauour of their friends.
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	Geoffrey Chaucer
		Chaucer as a pligrim from the Ellesmere manuscript
		Chaucer was born around 1343 probably in London, although the exact date and location is not known.
		In the history of English literature, Chaucer is considered the introducer of continental accentual-syllabic metre as an alternative to the alliterative Anglo-Saxon metre.
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	Geoffrey Chaucer - Gurupedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Chaucer wrote poetry as a diversion from his job as Comptroller of the Customs for the port of
		He is buried at Westminster Abbey in London, and was the first tenant of the Poets' Corner.
		The movie A Knight's Tale was very loosely based on The Knight's Tale, one of the Canterbury Tales, and a fictionalized Chaucer himself appears as a character in it.
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	Geoffrey Chaucer - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Romaunt of the Rose translation of Roman de la Rose, dubiously ascribed to Chaucer.
		Chaucer Metapage (http://www.unc.edu/depts/chaucer/) - Project in addition to the 33rd International Congress of Medieval Studies
		You can find it there under the keyword Chaucer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaucer)The list of previous authors is available here: version history (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chaucerandaction=history).
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		See Chaucer's elaborate dramatization of the "visit" in his "Complaint of Mars" and "The Complaint of Venus." Gower tells the story in his discussion of the jealousy of lovers, Confessio Amantis, 5.635-725.
		Chaucer uses the same source for his various references to Parnassus (Franklin's Tale, V.720; Troilus and Criseyde 3.1810; The House of Fame, line 521; Anelida and Arcite, line 16).
		Lydgate's phrase recalls Chaucer's description of the rock of ice on which the palace of Fame stands (The House of Fame, line 1139) and the satirical and skeptical treatment of fame and renown later in The House of Fame, lines 1567-1867.
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		Chaucer wrote poetry as a diversion from his job as Comptroller of the Customs for the port of London, and also translated such important works as The Romance of the Rose, written in French by Guillaume de Lorris and enlarged years later by Jean de Meun, and Anicius Manlius Severinus Boëthius ' De consolatione philosophiae.
		Chaucer's Chanticleer and the Fox wasbased on a story by Marie de France.
		Chaucer College, a graduate school of the University of Kent,England; North Petherton.
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	search.com - Geoffrey Chaucer - Search.com Reference
		Chaucer as a pilgrim from the Ellesmere manuscript
		In Troilus and Criseyde Chaucer draws heavily on his source, Bocaccio, and on the late Latin philsopher Boethius.
		Early on, representations of Chaucer began to circle around two co-existing identites: 1) a courtier and a king's man, an international humanist familiar with the classics and continental greats; 2) a man of the people, a plain-style satirist and a critic of the church.
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		However, he is bestknown as the writer of Troilus and Criseyde and ofThe Canterbury Tales, a collection of stories (told byfictional pilgrims on the road to the cathedral at Canterbury) that would help toshape English literature.
		In1556 his remains were transferred to a more ornate tomb, making Chaucer the first writer interred in the area now known as Poets' Corner.
		The movie A Knight's Tale was very looselybased on The Knight's Tale, one of the Canterbury Tales, and afictionalized Chaucer himself appears as a character in it.
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	Informat.io on Geoffrey Chaucer
		He is believed to have died of unknown causes on 25 October, 1400 but there is no firm evidence for this date which is from the engraving on his tomb, built over one hundred years after his death.
		When it is vocalised, most scholars pronouce it as a slight "uh" sound like the "u" in the word "triumph." Apart from the irregular spelling, much of the vocabulary is recognisable to the modern reader.
		As early as 1400, Chaucer's courtly audience grew to include members of the rising literate, middle and merchant classes, which included many Lollard sympathizers who would have been inclined to read Chaucer as one of their own, particularly in his satirical writings about priests and various religious.
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		When on the BBC site you excitedly click on the story which says "Potter filming to move to The Lakes" (Stunningly beautiful National Park in the North west of England) and you are sooooo disappointed to discover that it actually refers to Beatrix Potter.
		When in class, you are learning a math game to help teach math strategies to students, and in the game you have to guess a three digit number (any random number) and when it is your turn to make a guess you automatically say "713".
		When you watched a local car dealer commercial this morning and heard the phrase....."Hang on, it's going to be a bumpy ride" and got a mental image of the shrunken head on the Knight Bus.
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	Study Questions--Chaucer's Nun's Priest's Tale (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		What animals does Chaucer catalog as belonging to the poor widow?
		What does Chaucer mean when he says, "she eet ful many a sklendre meal"?
		In Chauntecleer's story of two men on pilgrimage, who does he quote as his source in line 2984?
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		She specifically mentions Valerius's story of Tullus Hostilius, WBT 1165-1167, from Liber III.4: De humili loco natis qui clari evaserunt, where the name is spelled Tullius.
		R.A. Pratt points out that these stories also appear in the thirteenth-century Communiloquium sive summa collationum of John of Wales, which Chaucer may have known.
		M.R. Rhodes, 288-311; OCD, 1106; K.O. Petersen, On the Sources of the Noones Preestes Tale, 109; R.A. Pratt, "Chaucer and the Hand That Fed Him." Speculum 41 (1966): 619-642; Valerius Maximus, Factorum dictorumque memoralibilium libri novem, ed.
	www.columbia.edu /dlc/garland/deweever/UV/valeriu1.htm (339 words)

	Ancestors of Donald E. Gradeless
		-- Geoffrey Chaucer 1343-1400 b 1343 London Middlesex England m before Sep 1366 London England
		-- Thomas Chaucer 1367-1434 b 1367 Ewelme Oxfordshire England m 1395 d Nov 1434
		-- Alice Chaucer 1385-1475 b c1385 Ewelme Oxfordshire England d 20 May 1475
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