》History of the Geoffrey Chaucer And About of the Geoffrey Chaucer

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➳  About the Geoffrey Chaucer :- 

》 Born - c. 1343 

             London, England

》 Died - 25 October 1400 (aged 56–57)

             London, England

》 Resting place - Westminster Abbey,                                  London, England

》 Other names - 

           Geffray Chaucer (orthographical                variant)

           

》 Occupations -

Authorpoetphilosopherbureaucratdiplomat

》 Era - Plantagenet

》 Spouse - Philippa Roet (m. 1366)

                Children

                 4, including Thomas

                   Writing career

》 Language - Middle English

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                ✿    Writing career    ✿

➳ Major works :-

*  The Book of the Duchess

*  The House of Fame

*  Anelida and Arcite

*  Parlement of Foules

*  Troilus and Criseyde

*  The Legend of Good Women

*  The Canterbury Tales

*  A Treatise on the Astrolabe

➳ Short poems :-

• An ABC
• Chaucers Wordes unto Adam, His Owne Scriveyn (disputed)^[95]
• The Complaint unto Pity
• The Complaint of Chaucer to his Purse
• The Complaint of Mars
• The Complaint of Venus
• A Complaint to His Lady
• The Former Age
• Fortune
• Gentilesse
• Lak of Stedfastnesse
• Lenvoy de Chaucer a Scogan
• Lenvoy de Chaucer a Bukton
• Proverbs

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》 Period - Middle English literature

                Genres

             Epic poemlyric poemshort                        storytreatise

》 Literary movement - 

                                   Precursor to the                                      English Renaissance

》 Years active - from 1368

》 Notable works - The Canterbury                                           Tales

》 Signature : -

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➳ History :- 

Chaucer was the first great poet writing in English, whose best-known work is 'The Canterbury Tales'.

Geoffrey Chaucer was born between 1340 and 1345, probably in London. His father was a prosperous wine merchant. We do not know any details of his early life and education.

In 1357, he was a page to Elizabeth, Countess of Ulster, wife of Edward III's third son. Chaucer was captured by the French during the Brittany expedition of 1359, but was ransomed by the king. Edward III later sent him on diplomatic missions to France, Genoa and Florence. His travels exposed him to the work of authors such as Dante, Boccaccio and Froissart.

Around 1366, Chaucer married Philippa Roet, a lady-in-waiting in the queen's household. They are thought to have had three or four children. Philippa's sister, Katherine Swynford, later became the third wife of John of Gaunt, the king's fourth son and Chaucer's patron.

In 1374, Chaucer was appointed comptroller of the lucrative London customs. In 1386, he was elected member of parliament for Kent, and he also served as a justice of the peace. In 1389, he was made clerk of the king's works, overseeing royal building projects. He held a number of other royal posts, serving both Edward III and his successor Richard II.

Chaucer's first major work was 'The Book of the Duchess', an elegy for the first wife of his patron John of Gaunt. Other works include 'Parlement of Foules', 'The Legend of Good Women' and 'Troilus and Criseyde'. In 1387, he began his most famous work, 'The Canterbury Tales', in which a diverse group of people recount stories to pass the time on a pilgrimage to Canterbury.

Chaucer disappears from the historical record in 1400, and is thought to have died soon after. He was buried in Westminster Abbey.

✿➢ External links :-

Benson, Larry D.; Pratt, Robert; Robinson, F. N., eds. (1987). The Riverside Chaucer (3rd ed.). Houghton-Mifflin. ISBN 978-0-395-29031-6.

✿➢ References :- 

1 . Geoffrey Chaucer in Context". Cambridge University Press. 2019. Retrieved 20 April 2020.

 2 ". Chaucer". Cambridge University Press. 2011. Retrieved 20 April 2020.

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