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Geoffrey Chaucer


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Geffrey Chaucer was a famous English Poet.

He lived between 1340 and 1400.

He wrote the Canterbury Tales which is a group of poems.

He wrote 24 but 4 were incomplete.

He wrote the Book of Dutchess in 1368.

One of Chaucer's greatest poems was Troilus and Coriseple.

William Caxton printed this poem at Westminster.

He was controller of customs from 1374 -1386 and clerk of the Kings Works from

1389 -1391. Chaucer wrote for a circle of people in and around the courts of

Edward III and especially Richard II. His life is known primarily through records

pertaining to his career as a courtier and civil servant under the English Kings

Edward III and Richard II.

Bibliography:

Encarta95

World Book.

Research by Kirk And Corey 4/5S

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