Geoffrey Chaucer

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Geoffrey Chaucer

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Why Is Geoffrey Chaucer Influential?

According to Wikipedia, Geoffrey Chaucer was an English poet, author, and civil servant best known for The Canterbury Tales. He has been called the "father of English literature", or, alternatively, the "father of English poetry". He was the first writer to be buried in what has since come to be called Poets' Corner, in Westminster Abbey. Chaucer also gained fame as a philosopher and astronomer, composing the scientific A Treatise on the Astrolabe for his 10-year-old son Lewis. He maintained a career in the civil service as a bureaucrat, courtier, diplomat, and member of parliament.

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What Are Geoffrey Chaucer's Academic Contributions?

Geoffrey Chaucer has made the following academic contributions:

• Troilus and Criseyde
• The Romaunt of the Rose
• The Legend of Good Women
• The House of Fame
• The Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer
• The Canterbury Tales and Faerie Queene
• The Book of the Duchess
• Parlement of Foules