Geoffrey chaucer biography short

This section is about Geoffrey Chaucer. Here you will find a short biography of Geoffrey Chaucer, the author of the Canterbury Tales.

Geoffrey chaucer biography short

The article was adapted from the Popular Cyclopedia.

Chaucer Facts

• Chaucer born 1340


• Wrote the Canterbury Tales in Middle English


• Considered the Father of English Literature


• In Addition to being a celebrated poet, Chaucer was a soldier, courtier, and perhaps even an alchemist


• He was the first poet granted the honor of being buried in Westminster Abbey.

  He has since been joined by such literary greats as Milton and Dickens.

Chaucer Biography

Geoffrey Chaucer, a celebrated English poet, was born at London, England, about 1340 and died there, Oct.

25, 1400. Of his childhood nothing is certainly known except that he was the son of a vintner.

Chaucer's date of birth is based largely on the record of a trial held in 1368, at which Chaucer testified. In the court record he is described as being forty years of age.

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