Life of the Author: Geoffrey Chaucer

Explores how generations of biographers shaped, reinvented, and fabricated the life of Geoffrey Chaucer Very little is known with certainty about Geoffrey Chaucer s life, yet he has long been enshrined as the Father of English Poetry. Over six centuries, biographers have sought to craft a version of Chaucer that meets the needs of their own time, culture, and readers. In doing so, they have ofte...