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Definition of Geoffrey Chaucer
1. Noun. English poet remembered as author of the Canterbury Tales (1340-1400).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Geoffrey Chaucer
Literary usage of Geoffrey Chaucer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"1 HE Ufe of Jeffery, or Geoffrey Chaucer, is involved in much obscurity. The age
1 hieb succeeded him was not favourable to those researches which could ..."
2. The Fortnightly Review (1866)
"NEW FACTS IN THE LIFE OF Geoffrey Chaucer. I HAVE lately had the fortune to meet
with the name of Geoffrey Chaucer in some ..."
3. Literary Landmarks of London by Laurence Hutton (1903)
"... Buckley did see a record in Letter Folio the same house where Geoffrey Chaucer
was fined two shillings for beating a Franciscan Friar in Fleet Street. ..."
4. The Monthly Review (1841)
"The Poems of Geoffrey Chaucer Modernized. WORDSWORTH, Leigh Hunt, the editor Mr.
11. H. Home, and others, have laboured to popularize Chaucer by giving a ..."
5. Lives of Great English Writers from Chaucer to Browning by Walter Swain Hinchman, Francis Barton Gummere (1908)
"GREAT ENGLISH WRITERS Geoffrey Chaucer Geoffrey Chaucer is rightly called the
father of English poetry. There were English poets before him, ..."