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Chaucer: The Life and Times of the First English Poet
Chaucer The Life and Times of the First English Poet Author:Richard West Buoyantly blending biography with history and literary criticism, this engaging new life of Geoffrey Chaucer follows the career of a man whose courtly offices situated him at the center of cultural and political activity in medieval London and whose poetry, especially the masterwork The Canterbury Tales, became a primary force in the evolution o... more »f modern English.« less