The life of Geoffrey Chaucer (ca. 1340-1400), often labeled “the father of English poetry,” ought to be an open book: He is mentioned almost 500 times in contemporary records, far more than ...

Geoffrey began his career in the service of Lionel ... On the death of John's first wife Blanche Chaucer wrote his poem The Book of the Duchess. Gaunt's third wife Katherine was said to have been a ...

From William Godwin's Life of Geoffrey Chaucer (1804) until almost the present day, Chaucerian biographers have rendered the medieval poet less “tedious” and enhanced his reputation by constructing ...

The first to write of Valentine’s Day – a feast day with ancient pagan roots – as a holiday celebrating love and lovers were ...

The over life-size white marble bust of the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was unveiled in Poets' Corner Westminster Abbey in 1884, on a pillar near to the tomb of Geoffrey Chaucer. It is by the ...