Chaucer

American  

[chaw-ser] / ˈtʃɔ sər /

noun

1. Geoffrey, 1340?–1400, English poet.

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Chaucer British  

/ ˈtʃɔːsə /

noun

1. Geoffrey. ?1340–1400, English poet, noted for his narrative skill, humour, and insight, particularly in his most famous work, The Canterbury Tales. He was influenced by the continental tradition of rhyming verse. His other works include Troilus and Criseyde, The Legende of Good Women, and The Parlement of Foules

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Given its literary sources, which include Sun Tzu, James Joyce and Geoffrey Chaucer, “Together Through Life” would seem to be waving its hand at the back begging to be noticed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 2026

I’d be out walking our dogs, Puck and Chaucer, and Stephen would just happen to be driving along the same road.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2025

Turner’s most audacious claim is that Chaucer created what we now think of as real people with interior minds in fiction.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 15, 2023

Chaucer Road in Cambridge was identified by Halifax as the most expensive street in the East of England at £4.2m per average home.

From BBC ● Dec. 21, 2022

Just as we might call Dunstaple’s contemporary Geoffrey Chaucer the father of English literature, so we should call John Dunstaple the father of the triad, and therefore of the Western harmonic system.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall