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Geoffrey Chaucer
was born around 1343 in London known as the Father of English Literature, and considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages and was the first poet to have been buried in Poet’s Corner in Westminster Abbey. His ‘Canterbury Tales’ follows the Pilgrim’s Way from London to Canterbury.
Major works
Translation of Roman de la Rose, possibly extant as The Romaunt of the Rose
Translation of Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy as Boece
Short poems
An ABC
Chaucers Wordes unto Adam, His Owne Scriveyn
The Complaint unto Pity
The Complaint of Chaucer to his Purse
The Complaint of Venus
A Complaint to His Lady
The Former Age
Fortune
Gentilesse
Lak of Stedfastnesse
Lenvoy de Chaucer a Scogan
Lenvoy de Chaucer a Bukton
Proverbs
Balade to Rosemounde
Truth
Womanly Noblesse
He died 25 October 1400.
Lord John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, KG, GCMG, PC born 18 August 1792 in Mayfair, London a Liberal politician who served twice as Prime
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