Sentence examples for chaucer from inspiring English sources
proper noun
Notably borne by , a 14th century English author, best remembered for The Canterbury Tales.
Furthermore, it seems inefficient to have a large share of the population spending four years reading Chaucer.
Other slang survives for centuries, like "bones" for dice (Chaucer), "beat it" for run away (Shakespeare), "duds" for clothes, and "booze" for liquor (Dekker).
Chaucer's Harry Bailly of the Tabard Inn, the "myrie man" who organises the tale-telling, was a member of Parliament; well into the 19th century, landlords were often magistrates; to this day their character is meant to be attested by several neighbours.
If change had been slower, perhaps Chaucer would be only as difficult as Shakespeare is to us; "Beowulf" only as distant as Chaucer is now.
You could say that Chaucer spoke debased old Saxon, or Shakespeare wrote in a rubbish version of Chaucer's middle English, or that the language has been on the road to hell since Dickens or Churchill or whoever (take your pick) represented its apogee.
The Poet's Tale: Chaucer and the Year that Made the Canterbury Tales.
Chaucer was a splitter, and even Shakespeare had a go.
This was what Chaucer had to contend with when, after a hard day of "reckonings" as controller of the wool custom, he came home to his room of books above Aldgate and attempted to write.
The martyrdom myth aside, there is no association between St Valentine's Day and romantic love until "Parlement of Foules", written by Geoffrey Chaucer in the late 1300s, to celebrate the first anniversary of Richard II's engagement to Anne of Bohemia.
It contains no new facts about Geoffrey Chaucer, author of "The Canterbury Tales", whose barely documented 14th-century life has long frustrated scholars: no more evidence about his strangely distant marriage to Philippa or his dealings with "lytel Lowys my sone", or what books he read, or the cabal of venal, overweening London merchants he did business with.
Banned in 1952 from being poetry consultant to the Library of Congress for his left-leaning views, Williams wrote poems in which the Rosenbergs appeared next to Geoffrey Chaucer.
