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	Geoffrey Chaucer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Chaucer was born around 1343 probably in London, although the exact date and location is not known.
		In 1324 John Chaucer, Geoffrey's father, was kidnapped by an aunt in the hope of marrying the twelve year-old boy to her daughter; an attempt to keep property in Ipswich.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Geoffrey_Chaucer (2799 words)

	MSN Encarta - Chaucer
		Chaucer, Geoffrey (1343?-1400), one of the greatest English poets, whose masterpiece, The Canterbury Tales, was one of the most important influences on the development of English literature.
		Chaucer served as controller of customs for London from 1374 to 1386 and clerk of the king's works from 1389 to 1391, in which post he was responsible for maintenance of royal buildings and parks.
		Chaucer greatly increased the prestige of English as a literary language and extended the range of its poetic vocabulary and meters.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761562849/Geoffrey_Chaucer.html (1276 words)

	Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Chaucer’s chief works during this time are the Book of the Duchess, an allegorical lament written in 1369 on the death of Blanche, wife of John of Gaunt, and a partial translation of the Roman de la Rose.
		Chaucer’s second period (up to c.1387) is called his Italian period because during this time his works were modeled primarily on Dante and Boccaccio.
		Chaucer was a master storyteller and craftsman, but because of a change in the language after 1400, his metrical technique was not fully appreciated until the 18th cent.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ch/Chaucer.html (693 words)

	Geoffrey Chaucer - Books and Biography
		Chaucer was the son of a prosperous wine merchant and deputy to the kings's butler, and his wife Agnes.
		Chaucer was so valued as a skilled professional soldier that his ransom, £16, then a tidy sum, was paid by his friends and King Edward.
		Chaucer was buried in Westminster Abbey, in the part of the church which afterwards came to be called Poet's Corner.
	www.readprint.com /author-18/Geoffrey-Chaucer (847 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Geoffrey Chaucer
		Chaucer was married before 1374; probably the Philippa Chaucer named in the queen's grant of 1366 was then Geoffrey Chaucer's wife (Lounsbury, Studies in Chaucer, I, 95-7).
		Lewis Chaucer, the "litel sonne Lowys", for whom the "Astrolale" was written, is supposed to have died in childhood.
		From about his twenty-sixth year Chaucer was frequently employed on important diplomatic missions; the year 1372-3 marks the turning point of his literary life, for then he was sent to Italy; circumstances make it extremely probable that either in Florence or at Padua he made Petrarch's acquaintance (Lounsbury, Studies, I, 67-68).
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/03642b.htm (1981 words)

	Malaspina Great Books - Geoffrey Chaucer (1340)
		John Chaucer, a vintner and citizen of London,; married Agnes, heiress of one Hamo de Copton, the city moneyer, and owned the house in Upper Thames Street, Dowgate Hill (a site covered now by the arrival platform of Cannon Street Station), where his son Geoffrey was born.
		Thence Chaucer was ransomed by the king, who, when the Lady Elizabeth died, took over her page and later (1367) pensioned him for life.
		The grants made to Philippa, his wife ceased in 1387, so that we may suppose she was then dead; during the springs of 1388 Chaucer was obliged to sell two of his pensions; in 1390 he was twice in one day robbed of the king's money, but was excused from repaying it.
	www.malaspina.org /home.asp?topic=./search/details&lastpage=./search/results&ID=100 (2074 words)

	GradeSaver: ClassicNote: Biography of Geoffrey Chaucer
		Chaucer was born in the early 1340s to a middle-class family.
		Chaucer's next work was Troilus and Criseyde, which was influenced by The Consolation of Philosophy, written by the Roman philosopher Boethius in the early sixth century and translated into English by Chaucer.
		Of Chaucer's two daughters, Elizabeth became a nun, while Agnes was a lady-in-waiting for the coronation of Henry IV in 1399.
	www.gradesaver.com /ClassicNotes/Authors/about_geoffrey_chaucer.html (905 words)

	Geoffrey Chaucer at LiteratureClassics.com -- essays, resources
		Chaucer was the first in a tradition of English poets who would play a significant role in the development of literature.
		The name Chaucer, a French form of the Latin calcearius, a shoe11-taker, is found in London and the eastern counties as early as the second half of the 13th century.
		Chaucer's Shipman -- A brief analysis of the shipman in Geoffrey Chaucer's prologue to the Canterbury Tales.
	www.literatureclassics.com /authors/Chaucer (747 words)

	Renaissance Chaucer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Edwards, A. "Pynson's and Thynne's Editions of Chaucer's House of Fame." Studies in Bibliography: Papers of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia 42 (1989), 185-186.
		Martin, Ellen E. "Spenser, Chaucer, and the Rhetoric of Elegy," Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 17 (1987), pp.
		Chaucer to Shakespeare: Essays in Honour of Shinsuke Ando.
	www.vanderbilt.edu /AnS/english/plummerj/rennchau.htm (1610 words)

	A Chaucer Chronology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Chaucer captured in France and ransomed by the king.
		Marries Philippa, 1st daughter of Paon de Roet (in the household of Queen Philippa) and sister of Katherine (later mistress and third wife of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster).
		Chaucer borrows against his annuity; action for debt against Chaucer; letters of protection from the King.
	www.umm.maine.edu /faculty/necastro/chaucer/chronology.asp (920 words)

	Geoffrey Chaucer - Biography and Works
		Geoffrey Chaucer (born 1340/44, died 1400) is remembered as the author of The Canterbury Tales, which ranks as one of the greatest epic works of world literature.
		Chaucer made a crucial contribution to English literature in using English at a time when much court poetry was still written in Anglo-Norman or Latin.
		Chaucer took his narrative inspiration for his works from several sources but still remained an entirely individual poet, gradually developing his personal style and techniques.
	www.online-literature.com /chaucer (494 words)

	Geoffrey Chaucer: General Introduction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Chaucer is traditionally said to have died on 25 October 1400 and was buried in the south transept of Westminster Abbey.
		Chaucer's earliest works may be termed "occasional poetry", if we accept that the Book of the Duchess was written to console John of Gaunt on the death of his wife Blanche in 1369, and if the Parliament of Fowls was written to mark the marriage of Richard II in 1382.
		Chaucer leads the reader to the point where the ability of any fictional tale to tell the truth is challenged, though not necessarily as radically denied as the Parson would wish.
	www.sogang.ac.kr /~anthony/Chaucer (8280 words)

	The Digital Mirror - Manuscripts - Chaucer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Chaucer's work is permeated by humour, often a rough, vulgar humour, and he even pokes fun at himself on several occasions.
		In the case of the 'Hengwrt Chaucer', later additions indicate that by the sixteenth century the manuscript had reached the Welsh Borders, for it belonged to Fouke Dutton, identified as a draper of Chester, who died in 1558.
		Amongst other Chaucer manuscripts in the Library's collections are three exemplars of his Tretyse on the Astrolabe, all with Welsh associations: Peniarth 359, NLW 3049D and NLW 3567B; the last of which was in the possession of John Edwards of Chirk, Denbighshire, as early as 1551.
	www.llgc.org.uk /drych/drych_s007.htm (819 words)

	Biblography of Chaucer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Geoffrey Chaucer was born in the early 1340's, in approximately 1343.
		The only known facts about Chaucer's life between 1358 and 1367 are that he was imprisoned in France during the Hundred Years War and was ransomed in March 1360, for rather large sum.
		In 1381, Chaucer was sent to deal with marriage negotiations between Richard II and the daughter of the French King granted the title of "Knight of the Shire," an important Parliament post, and later (1389) was installed as the Clerk of the King's Works at Westminster, the Tower, and other property in south England.
	www.csis.pace.edu /grendel/projs2c/bib.html (307 words)

	Chaucer, Geoffrey -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		His poetry frequently (but not always unironically) reflects the views and values associated with the term “courtly.” It is in some ways not easy to account for his decision to write in English, and it is not surprising that his earliest substantial poems, the...
		Geoffrey Chaucer was born in London, probably in 1342 or 1343.
		His reputation was once as high as Chaucer's, and his work was influential for nearly a century.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9108409 (843 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: The Canterbury Tales (Bantam Classics) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Chaucer writes about everyman and his stories represent one of the motliest crews in English literature: the Wife of Bath who has put away five husbands and is looking for a sixth; the pardoner, the reeve, the clerk, the knight, and a host of others from all walks of life.
		One must accept that Chaucer was as human and imperfect as most of his peers; without compromising the fact that Chaucer was a literary genius who had a profound effect on English language and English literature.
		Chaucer is one of the first great English authors of name; most (but not all) literary output in English prior to this time was anonymous.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0553210823?v=glance (2556 words)

	GEOFFREY CHAUCER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		GEOFFREY CHAUCER (1340~-1400) was a Medieval English writer whose poetry ranks with Shakespeare's, and Whitman's, as the finest ever written in our language.
		Chaucer knew the work of French and Italian writers as well as that of English ones.
		Chaucer wrote in Middle English, a language used from the 1100s to the end of the 1400s.
	www.byu.edu /ipt/projects/middleages/People/Chaucer.html (173 words)

	Chaucer Bibliography
		Chaucer and the mystics: the Canterbury tales and the genre of devotional prose.
		Ricardian Poetry: Chaucer, Gower, Langland, and the Gawain poet.
		Chaucer and Medieval Estates Satire: The Literature of Social Classes and the General Prologue of The Canterbury Tales.
	www.wsu.edu:8080 /~hanly/chaucer/coursematerials/bib.html (612 words)

	Geoffrey Chaucer (1342-1400) - "The Canterbury Tales" (in middle english and modern english)
		Geoffrey Chaucer, an English poet, was born in 1342.
		Chaucer rose in royal employment and became a knight of the shire for Kent.
		Chaucer died in October 1400 and was buried in Westminster Abbey in London.
	www.librarius.com (749 words)

	EXEMPLARIA: Teaching Chaucer in the 90s Pre-print (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		While the uncritical praise of his pilgrims by Chaucer the naive pilgrim-narrator is qualified by numerous ironies, Chaucer's generosity also reassures the reader of the author's trust in the healing power of the pilgrimage, not a small part of which springs from the fellowship the pilgrims share in telling and responding to their tales.
		Chaucer is not only aware of the traditional roles of medieval poets, story-tellers and church authors as exponents of generic manipulation, he will not let his audience escape without being bombarded by two, three, or more discrete discursive modes at the same time.
		Chaucer's writings even conform to the requirements for guaranteed admission to the canon of "classic" works: Blur your authorial persona beyond redefinition and endow the most poignant moments of your work with as many levels of ambiguity as possible.
	www.english.ufl.edu /exemplaria/sympo.html (17081 words)

	Chaucer and The Canterbury Tales (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		One of the characteristics that makes Chaucer's work so convincing is his ability to present characters that have real life qualities.
		The narrator of the tales is Geoffrey Chaucer himself: but he speaks though a variety of media: "...Chaucer's pilgrim narrators represent a wide spectrum of ranks and occupations.
		Chaucer the Pilgrim is the narrator of the tales, and he must give an accurate description of what is going on, even if he disagrees with the character's action.
	www.csis.pace.edu /grendel/projs2c/ch3.html (372 words)

	The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer: A searchable online version at The Literature Network
		If Chaucer is the "Well of English undefiled," Spenser is the broad and stately river that yet holds the tenure of its very life from the fountain far away in other and ruder scenes.
		Despite this complacent assurance, the obvious fact is, that Chaucer in the old forms has not become popular, in the true sense of the word; he is not "understanded of the vulgar." In this volume, therefore, the text of Chaucer has been presented in nineteenth-century garb.
		Chaucer's base humour was not of the "wink-nudge" innuendo sort, rather it was pure vulgarity.
	www.online-literature.com /chaucer/canterbury (2046 words)

	The New Chaucer Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The purpose of the New Chaucer Society is to provide a forum for teachers and scholars of Geoffrey Chaucer and his age.
		To advance such study, the Society organizes biennial international congresses of Chaucerians, publishes the annual Studies in the Age of Chaucer and a semiannual newsletter, and supports such important projects as the Annotated Chaucer Bibliography (an electronic version of which is available on-line).
		Membership in the New Chaucer Society is open to all persons interested in the study of Chaucer and his age.
	artsci.wustl.edu /~chaucer (225 words)

	Chaucer
		The first rhyme in a poem is "a," the second "b," etc. Chaucer's most common verse rhyme scheme in the Canterbury Tales, the rhyming couplet, would be described as "aa, bb, cc, dd" because it rarely repeats a rhyme due to the pressures on the poet to keep the narrative moving.
		In Chaucer's hands this form is capable of ironic humor ("To Adam Scryvyn," "Complaint to His Purse") as well as sophisticated social commentary ("Gentilesse" and "Truth").
		Petrarch / (Chaucer) / Wyatt / Surrey: Invention of the Sonnet.
	faculty.goucher.edu /eng211/chaucer.htm (666 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: The Riverside Chaucer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Well, because Chaucer was intensely human and his stories are interesting, and either truly poignant or richly comic and sometimes even both.
		Those new to Chaucer would be well advised to learn how to read Middle English _aloud_ as soon as possible by listening to one of the many excellent recordings.
		I have read several editions of Chaucer's various works, both in the original dialect, and in translation, and this is by far the best text available for both the casual reader who wishes to appreciate the vitality of the author's repertoire, and the serious student of literature.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0395290317?v=glance (1647 words)

	Essays and Articles on Chaucer
		Chaucer's Knight, the Tale of Melibee, and the SocioHistorical Implications of Pilgrimage - Frederick Martin
		Chaucer’s Friar: A Portrait of Immorality - Jim Knapp, Jr.
		Chaucer's Pardoner: The Death of a Salesman - Derek Pearsall
	www.luminarium.org /medlit/chaucessays.htm (1520 words)

	The Print and The Book: The Kelmscott Chaucer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		After a quick glance at the Kelmscott Chaucer, one might think the book was printed in the 15th or 16th century, not long after the printing of the Gutenberg Bible.
		The Kelmscott Chaucer was Morris' response to what he considered the cheap quality of books of the time.
		Morris' goal in printing his Chaucer was to produce not just a book, but a work of art, worthy of the quality of the earliest books, which Morris considered the golden era of book design and printing.
	wt.mit.edu /~subway/Prints/chaucer.html (530 words)

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