Hosted on MSN1mon
‘Geoffrey Chaucer’ Review: A Worldly, Well-Traveled Poet
Several of the “Canterbury Tales” are indeed stories of sex and ... 1340-1400), often labeled “the father of English poetry,” ought to be an open book: He is mentioned almost 500 times ...
BBC3mon
From the Tabard Inn to Canterbury
The fact that Chaucer wrote in English (now referred to as Middle English), rather than French or Latin like many of his fellow writers, meant that ordinary folk could enjoy the Canterbury Tales ...