In The Canterbury Tales Chaucer created one of the great touchstones of English literature, a masterly collection of chivalric romances, moral allegories and low farce.
Geoffrey Chaucer was born in London in about 1342. He was valued
highly by Edward III, who paid part of his ransom when he was
captured fighting in France in 1360. He rose in royal employment,
becoming a Justice of the Peace and was buried in 1400 in
Westminster Abbey.
Nevill Coghill's translation of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde into
modern English is also published by Penguin Classics.
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