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Geoffrey Chaucer is rightly regarded as the Father of English Literature. His observant wit, his narrative skill and characterization, his linguistic invention, have been a well from which the language's greatest writers have drawn: Shakespeare, Pope, Austen, Dickens among them. A courtier, a trade emissary and diplomat, he fought in the CENTURY War and was captured and ransomed; his marriage in to the family of John of Gaunt ensured his influence in political society. For more than a decade, he was engaged on his most well-known work of most, The Canterbury Tales, until his death around 1400; there is not a record of the complete date or the circumstances of his demise, despite vivid and colorful speculation. Bernard O'Donoghue is one of the country's leading poets and medievalists. His accessible new selection carries a linking commentary on the chosen texts, together with a comprehensive line-for-line glossary that makes this the most approachable and accessible introduction to Chaucer that readers can buy.
