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Geoffrey Chaucer

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Touted as the father of modern English by his contemporaries and later (even modern) critics,
Read the essay: Geoffrey Chaucer: The Father of Modern English? by Colleen Curran
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1 Patience Agbabi reading and conversation

In this podcast the dynamic poet Patience Agbabi is in conversation about her Ted Hughes short-...

Patience Agbabi, Elleke Boehmer, Marion Turner
2 Chaucer

Professor Daniel Wakelin discusses the work of Chaucer and explains how he was one of the first...

Daniel Wakelin
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1 Why should we study Chaucer?

Dr Laura Ashe of Worcester College, Oxford, discusses her current research and proposes why we...

Laura Ashe, Ilana Lassman
2 Chaucer

Professor Daniel Wakelin discusses the work of Chaucer and explains how he was one of the first...

Daniel Wakelin
3 History of English Pronunciation

Do we really know what Chaucer's poetry sounded like? Professor Simon Horobin introduces...

Simon Horobin
# Essay Title Description Contributor
1 Geoffrey Chaucer: The Father of Modern English?

Touted as the father of modern English by his contemporaries and later (even modern) critics,...

Colleen Curran
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1 The Canterbury Tales

ebook version of The Canterbury Tales

Geoffrey Chaucer
2 Troilus & Criseyde

ebook version of Troilus & Criseyde

Geoffrey Chaucer
3 Canterbury tales

The Cambridge ms (University Library, Gg.4.27) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales.
ed. by...

Geoffrey Chaucer
4 A treatise on the astrolabe : addressed to his son Lowys

A treatise on the astrolabe : addressed to his son Lowys by Geoffrey Chaucer. A.D. 1391 ...

Geoffrey Chaucer
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1 William Blake - Chaucer's Canterbury Pilgrims

Copper engraving by William Blake, with additions in watercolour by the artist Third state, 1810...