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Chaucer, Geoffrey
English Literature in Chaucer’s time
Middle English
Poetry
The Canterbury Tales (excerpt)
audio clips of poetry
burial place
contemporaries
earliest ancestors of modern short stories
genres of work
influences on his writing
publications of his works
quotations
role in literary history
works
From The Canterbury Tales
The writing of 14th-century English poet Geoffrey Chaucer combines influences from many European traditions: secular and religious, comic and...
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