Mark Steel Lectures - Geoffrey Chaucer
If you ask most people what they know about Geoffrey Chaucer, they'll probably reply that he was the bloke
who wrote bawdy poems about people sticking their bums out of windows and breaking wind. Which, strictly speaking,
is true. However, through his writing Chaucer not only managed to become considered as the father of English poetry,
he also attained the lofty position of being this country's first ever social commentator.
In this lecture, writer and broadcaster Mark Steel pores over the life of Geoffrey Chaucer, whose epic work
The Canterbury Tales was one of the first ever books to roll off William Caxton's printing press in 1476.
(from open2.net)
| Mark Steel Lectures - Geoffrey Chaucer |
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| Geoffrey Chaucer - wikipedia Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400), known as the Father of English literature, is widely considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages and was the first poet to have been buried in Poet's Corner of Westminster Abbey. |
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