Chaucer, Geoffrey (c.1340–1400), poet and administrator

by Douglas Gray

  • Early years
  • Poetry: the beginnings
  • Journeys on the king's service—Italy
  • Chaucer at the custom house and Aldgate
  • Works of the 1370s and early 1380s
  • Life in London, c.1380–c.1386
  • Retires from the custom house and moves to Kent, c.1386–c.1389
  • Troilus and Criseyde and The Legend of Good Women
  • Clerk of king's works, 1389–1391
  • The Canterbury Tales and other late works
  • Last years
  • The canon and reception of Chaucer's works

References

See also

Themes

  • Chaucer and the growth of vernacular literature, c.1350–c.1500

Other online resources

  • Bibliography of British and Irish history
  • Grove Music Online
  • National Portrait Gallery
  • National Register of Archives

DNB archive

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