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 ...

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The life of Geoffrey Chaucer (ca. 1340-1400), often labeled “the father of English poetry,” ought to be an open book: He is ...

Say “Chaucer,” and most people think of the Canterbury Tales, or perhaps the 2001 jousting pastiche A Knight’s Tale. But yesterday, on the 612th anniversary of the legendary English poet’s death, most ...

Founded in 1966, The Chaucer Review: A Journal of Medieval Studies and Literary Criticism publishes studies of the language, sources, historical and political contexts, social milieus, and aesthetics ...

Dr. Marion Turner is the recipient of Western's Otto Gründler Book Prize for her biography of medieval poet Geoffrey Chaucer. KALAMAZOO, Mich.—A scholar of medieval secular literature and history has ...

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 ...