The life of Geoffrey Chaucer (ca. 1340-1400), often labeled “the father of English poetry,” ought to be an open book: He is mentioned almost 500 times in contemporary records, far more than ...

Chaucer and Granson encountered one another in the service of Richard II of England and admired one another’s poetry. Their poems about Valentine’s Day show them operating as an international ...

To commemorate King Richard II’s engagement on that day in 1381, Geoffrey Chaucer wrote a love poem. “He had Italian friends who told him that it was the feast of St. Valentine, the first ...

His patron and friend was John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, another son of the King. On the death of John's first wife Blanche Chaucer wrote his poem The Book of the Duchess. Gaunt's third wife ...

and aesthetics of Chaucer's poetry, as well as associated studies on medieval literature, philosophy, theology, and mythography relevant to an understanding of the poet, his contemporaries, his ...

The over life-size white marble bust of the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was unveiled in Poets' Corner Westminster Abbey in 1884, on a pillar near to the tomb of Geoffrey Chaucer. It is by the ...