Chaucer, Geoffrey

1. A fourteenth-century English poet, called the father of English poetry: he was the first great poet to write in the English language. Chaucer's best-known work is The Canterbury Tales.

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Chaucer, Geoffrey, quoted, flowers of, 215.

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Cazotte, J., his Le diable amoureux, 292 Cecill, Thomas, engraver, 286 Cennini, Bernardo, first printer at Florence, 67; colophon of his Virgil, 80 Cervicornus, Eucharius, printer at Cologne, 225 Chapman, Walter, printer at Edinburgh, 239 Charteris, Henry, printer at Edinburgh, 242 Chaucer, Geoffrey, early editions, 207, 251, 255, 258 Chauveau, Fran�ois, engraver, 289 Chess, Game and Play of the, 205, 251 Chester, printing at, 237, etc.

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Chaucer, Geoffrey, liii, lxxiii, 21, 32, 34-5, 40-2, 200, 267-8, 319-21, 343, 408-9, 422.

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Chaucer, Geoffrey, 75, 76, 77, 164, 601.

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Chaucer, Geoffrey, complaint of his scribe's errors, 160, 161; Hazlitt on, 142; his spelling, 149.

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