Chaucer, Geoffrey

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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

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

From The Booklover and His Books by Koopman, Harry Lyman

Chaucer, Geoffrey: borrowings, 205; rank, 281; honest rhymes, 340; times mentioned, 382.

From Ralph Waldo Emerson by Holmes, Oliver Wendell