Chaucer biography timeline books
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Life of Chaucer
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Geoffrey Chaucer led a busy official life, as an esquire of the royal court, as the comptroller of the customs for the port of London, as a participant in important diplomatic missions, and in a variety of other official duties.
All this is richly recorded in literally hundreds of documents (see Martin Crow and Clair C. Olson, Chaucer Life Records (Austin, 1966)). But such documents tell us little about Chaucer the man and poet.
Nor does Chaucer himself tell us all that much.
Chaucer biography timeline books
He is a lively presence in his works, and every reader comes to feel that he knows Chaucer very well. Perhaps we do. There is a certain consistency in the character of Chaucer as he appears in his works, and occasional biographical passages, such as this from The House of Fame, seem to ring true:
"Wherfore, as I seyde, ywys,
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