The National Book Critics Circle gave its annual awards Monday to the authors of a biography of poet Geoffrey Chaucer and a history of the atomic bomb. Novelist Philip Roth was also among the winners ...

A new book traces the “biography” of Geoffrey Chaucer’s most enduring character and her impact on the course of English literature. Credit...Culture Club/Getty Images Supported by By Erin Maglaque ...

Virgile, Ovide, Omer, Lucan, and Stace. (V.1786-92) [2] [5] For notice of this reference, see the brief mention in the note to vv. 1789-92 in the Riverside Chaucer, C.D. Benson’s edition of F.N.

Twenty years ago, Donald Howard, the author of this biography, thought no such work was possible because there were so few records of Geoffrey Chaucer, a 14th Century poet who lived and died before ...

Geoffrey Chaucer was born in the Middle Ages between 1340 and 1345, probably in London, although the precise date and location remain unknown. His father and grandfather were prosperous wine merchants ...

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The Wife of Bath was dreamed up by Geoffrey Chaucer in The Canterbury Tales more than 600 years ago. She has captured countless imaginations since. The character known for her lusty appetites, gossipy ...

Before "The Canterbury Tales," Geoffrey Chaucer was a teenage fashion plate, prisoner of war, a traveler. We dig into a new biography. On 4th July, 1378, a bead-maker, Simon Wylde de Estland, robbed a ...