Author:Geoffrey Chaucer

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Geoffrey Chaucer
(c. 1343 – c. 1400)

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English poet; known as the Father of English literature; widely considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages and was the first poet to have been buried in Poet's Corner of Westminster Abbey

Works

Stories

Poetry

Collected works

The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer (ed. Walter W. Skeat, 1894 etc.)
- Vol. I - Romaunt of the Rose; Minor Poems (transcription project)
  - Includes: A Balade of Compleynt; A Compleint to his Lady; Against Women Unconstaunt; An A. B. C.; An Amorous Complaint; Anelida and Arcite; Balade to Rosemounde; Fortune; Gentilesse; Lak of Stedfastnesse; Lenvoy to Bukton; Lenvoy to Scogan; Merciles Beautè; Proverbs of Chaucer; The Book of the Duchesse; The Compleint of Chaucer to his empty Purse; The Compleynt of Mars; The Compleynt of Venus; The Compleynte unto Pitè; The Former Age; The Parlement of Foules; Truth; Wordes unto Adam
- Vol. II - Boethius; Troilus (transcription project)
- Vol. III - The House of Fame; The Legend of Good Women; The Treatise on the Astrolabe; The Sources of the Canterbury Tales (transcription project)
- Vol. IV - The Canterbury Tales: Text (transcription project)
- Vol. V - Notes to the Canterbury Tales (transcription project)
- Vol. VI - General Introduction to the Edition, Glossary, and Indexes (transcription project)
- Vol. VII - Chaucerian and other pieces : being a supplement to the complete works of Geoffrey Chaucer (transcription project)
The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer (1898, The Globe Edition) ed. by Alfred W. Pollard, H. Frank Heath, Mark H. Liddell and W. S. McCormick (external scan)
- The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer (1908, The Globe Edition) ed. by Alfred W. Pollard, H. Frank Heath, Mark H. Liddell and W. S. McCormick (Commons file)
- The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer (1928, The Globe Edition) ed. by Alfred W. Pollard, H. Frank Heath, Mark H. Liddell and W. S. McCormick (transcription project)

Translations

Boecius De Consolatione Philosophie (1478) by Boethius (external scan) or (external scan)

Works about Chaucer

"Geoffrey Chaucer" in Stories from Old English Poetry by Abby Sage Richardson, (1871)
"Ye Tombe of Ye Poet Chaucer" (1879) by Edmund Clarence Stedman
The Language and Metre of Chaucer, by Bernhard ten Brink, ed. by Friedrich Kluge, transl. by M. Bentinck Smith (1901; orig. in German, 1899 and 1884) (external scan)

Encyclopedia articles

"Chaucer, Geoffrey," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885–1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
"Chaucer, Geoffrey," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
"Chaucer, Geoffrey," by Alfred William Pollard in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
"Geoffrey Chaucer," in Catholic Encyclopedia, (ed.) by Charles G. Herbermann and others, New York: The Encyclopaedia Press (1913)

On his works

"Parliament of Fowls, The," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)

Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1930, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.

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