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Geoffrey Chaucer

Geoffrey Chaucer wrote The Canterbury Tales, the poetic collection of stories widely regarded as the beginning of English literature. The stories, by turns bawdy, comical and pious, are told by a…

Chaucer, Geoffrey

(Encyclopedia) Chaucer, GeoffreyChaucer, Geoffreyjĕfˈrē chôˈsər, c.1340–1400, English poet, one of the most important figures in English literature. To Chaucer's final period, in which he achieved…

Tabard Inn

(Encyclopedia) Tabard InnTabard Inntăbˈərd [key], in Southwark borough, Greater London, England. The inn, demolished in the 19th cent., was mentioned by Geoffrey Chaucer in the Prologue of the…

Gamelyn, The Tale of

(Encyclopedia) Gamelyn, The Tale ofGamelyn, The Tale ofgămˈəlĭn [key], a romance in verse, written c.1350, containing about 900 lines. It tells of the tribulations of a young man abused by his older…

ballade

(Encyclopedia) balladeballadebəlädˈ [key], in literature, verse form developed in France in the 14th and 15th cent. The ballade usually contains three stanzas of eight lines with three rhymes and a…

Kelmscott Press

(Encyclopedia) Kelmscott Press, printing establishment in London. There William Morris led the 19th-century revival of the art and craft of making books (see arts and crafts). The first book made by…

Geoffrey IV

(Encyclopedia) Geoffrey IV, known as Geoffrey PlantagenetGeoffrey IV,plătăjˈənət [key] [O.Fr.,=sprig of broom; he usually wore a sprig in his helmet], 1113–51, count of Anjou (1129–51); son of Fulk,…

John Keats: Chaucer

by JohnKeatsSleep and PoetryChaucer What is more gentle than a wind in summer? What is more soothing than the pretty hummer That stays one moment in an open flower, And buzzes cheerily…