Dr. Marion Turner is the recipient of Western's Otto Gründler Book Prize for her biography of medieval poet Geoffrey Chaucer. KALAMAZOO, Mich.—A scholar of medieval secular literature and history has ...
The first sentence of the epilogue to Marion Turner’s biography of Geoffrey Chaucer (ca. 1342-1400) aptly summarizes the poet’s legacy: “Chaucer became a monumental poet, enclosed in a monumental tomb ...
Before "The Canterbury Tales," Geoffrey Chaucer was a teenage fashion plate, prisoner of war, a traveler. We dig into a new biography. On 4th July, 1378, a bead-maker, Simon Wylde de Estland, robbed a ...
The National Book Critics Circle gave its annual awards Monday to the authors of a biography of poet Geoffrey Chaucer and a history of the atomic bomb. Novelist Philip Roth was also among the winners ...
Twenty years ago, Donald Howard, the author of this biography, thought no such work was possible because there were so few records of Geoffrey Chaucer, a 14th Century poet who lived and died before ...
Princeton University: Dante's (and Boccaccio's) bella scola and Geoffrey Chaucer's: The Envoy of the Troilus
Dante's (and Boccaccio's) bella scola and Geoffrey Chaucer's: The Envoy of the Troilus
The Wife of Bath was dreamed up by Geoffrey Chaucer in The Canterbury Tales more than 600 years ago. She has captured countless imaginations since. The character known for her lusty appetites, gossipy ...
Geoffrey Chaucer talks about himself all the time. In his early dream narratives, he writes about his own fantastic adventures and encounters with allegorical figures or talking birds. As the ...