0226l-GEOFFREY CHAUCER born 1343-10/25/1400 in London, England, was an English author, poet, philosopher, bureaucrat courtier, and diplomat,
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Sometimes called the father of English literature, major works; Translation of Roman de la Rose, possibly extant as The Romaunt of the Rose, The Book of the Duchess, The House of Fame, Anelida and Arcite, The Parliament of Fowls, Translation of Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy as Boece, Troilus and Criseyde, The Legend of Good Women, The Canterbury Tales, Treatise on the Astrolabe, Short poems; An ABC, Chaucers Wordes unto Adam-His Owne Scriveyn, The Complaint unto Pity, The Complaint of Chaucer to his Purse, The Complaint of Mars, The Complaint of Venus, A Complaint to His Lady, The Former Age, Fortune, Gentilesse, Lenvoy de Chaucer a Scogan, Lenvoy de Chaucer a Bukton, Proverbs, To Rosemounde, Truth, Womanly Noblesse, at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Chaucer