How's your Middle English? Here's an opportunity to brush it up as we dip into an empty purse belonging to Geoffrey Chaucer. "Fortunately," says Kathryn L Lynch, the editor of Dream Visions and Other ...

In our series Art for Trying Times, authors nominate a work they turn to for solace or perspective during this pandemic. The Greeks are at the gates, and the city of Troy is under siege. Every day, ...

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 ...

The Canterbury Tales manage to combine the most solemn chivalric concerns and bright lyric poetry with bawdy gags about bums and red hot pokers The thing that most people know about The Canterbury ...

Listeners to the Book Show and before that to Books & Writing from the mid-nineties onwards would be familiar with the voice of my next guest. Geoff Page is a poet and reviewer who has reviewed many ...

Chaucer himself was a translator, people forget, his most important work along those lines being “The Romance of the Rose” and Boethius’ “The Consolation of Philosophy.” Some of the tales that appear ...

Biographers of Chaucer are faced with obstacles, not least a dearth of juicy information concerning his life. Chaucer may have left a big public footprint compared with other medieval authors – his ...

Geoffrey Chaucer's timeless quote, "If gold rusts, what then can iron do?" warns of moral decay when respected figures falter ...