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Short Biography of Geoffrey Chaucer, Poet, Cilvil Servant and Diplomat
A Short Biography of Geoffrey Chaucer, Poet, Civil Servant and Diplomat. This biography of Geoffrey Chaucer intends to highlight the connection of Chaucer’s official life as a courtier and civil servant with the poetic persona through which he received some public recognition during his lifetime.
Chaucer’s many diplomatic obligations and travels are seen as educational rather than conflicting. His contact with other European cultural influences, especially Italian poetry, encouraged Chaucer to work with the English vernacular and to re-interpret a large number of classical tales in English.
Geoffrey chaucer biography pdf
Geoffrey Chaucer is probably the medieval writer who most is known about in terms of historical sources. Compared to contemporary writers such as Langland and the Pearl Poet, Chaucer’s life seems like an open book when it comes to official records.
The sources that this biography is based on are the collection of official doc