Had Chaucer hired a lawyer or fixer to help him with his story? “We began with the suspicion that he did try to cover something up,” Sobecki said. After consulting with Roger, ...

The life of Geoffrey Chaucer (ca. 1340-1400), often labeled “the father of English poetry,” ought to be an open book: He is mentioned almost 500 times in contemporary records, far more than ...

Chaucer's Miller, from 'The Canterbury Tales,' whose story was dirty enough to be censored from high school English class in the '80s. A woodcut from Richard Pynson's 1492 edition.

At once Chaucer balances the spiritual riches of his Parson against his material poverty. Today, six hundred years later, the image of the “poor parson of a town” has lost a bit of its force.

Ther was in Asye . . . a Jewerye . . . for joule usure and lucre of vileynye . . .U.S. schools last week were still quivering from the effect of race prejudice in ...

Chaucer, it must be said, is not the most readable of English poets. It is to be supposed that he rhymed quite well to those who spoke the language in a medieval way, but to modern ears his verses ...

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