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geoffrey chaucer
He's buried in Westminster Abbey even though he's most famous for his "Canterbury Tales"
Trivia about geoffrey chaucer
The "Book of the Duchesse" is an elegy for the Duchess of Lancaster by this author of "The Canterbury Tales"
Anya Seton's novel "Katherine" is based on John of Gaunt's affair with this "Canterbury Tales"-spinner's sister-in-law
The source of "The Two Noble Kinsmen", probably co-written by Shakespeare, was this author's "The Knight's Tale"
He was elected to Parliament in 1386 & began writing "The Canterbury Tales" about a year later
"Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote the droghte of March hath perced to the roote"
Before this poet died on October 25, 1400, he was living in a house in the garden of Westminster Abbey
This author planned to have each pilgrim tell 2 tales on the way to Canterbury & 2 on the way back
His 1380s poem "The Parlement of Foules" isn't about idiots in government; it's about birds choosing mates
"The Canterbury Pilgrims", an 1884 opera, is based on a work by him
The Frenche captured this poet brave and handsome, but the kynge wyth 16 pounds dyd pay hys ransome
"The Father of English Poetry"
Famous for a set of bawdy stories, he was the first to be buried in Westminster Abbey's Poets' Corner
In the 14th century he wrote, "A good wyf was there of bisyde bathe, but she was som-del deef, and that was scathe"
His 14th C. poem "The Parliament of Fowls" includes "The raven wys, the crowe with vois of care"
For a greatt writer, he couldn't spell to save his life, as in his line about "the hooly blisful martir"