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Chaucer, Geoffrey
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...Geoffrey Chaucer (jĕf´rē chô´sər), c.1340–1400...literature. Life and CareerThe known facts of Chaucer's life are fragmentary and are based...between 1340 and 1344, the son of John Chaucer, a vintner. In 1357 he was a page in the......
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Kelmscott Press
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......masterpiece of the press was The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer (1896), a folio with illustrations by Sir Edward...Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye (1892); and the Chaucer type, named for the Chaucer folio. The Chaucer type is smaller than the Troy......
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Lydgate, John
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......poet, a monk of Bury St. Edmunds. A professed disciple of Chaucer, he was one of the most influential, voluminous, and versatile...such as the Complaint of the Black Knight, which resembles Chaucer's Book of the Duchess, and the allegory The Temple of Glass......
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Gower, John
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......English poet. He was the best-known contemporary and friend of Chaucer, who addressed him as "Moral Gower," at the end of Troilus...In the 15th and 16th cent. Gower was frequently paired with Chaucer as a master of English poetry. Each of his three major works......
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John of Gaunt
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......of the royal line of Lancaster). John is also remembered as the patron of the poet Geoffrey Chaucer. See biography by S. Armitage-Smith (1904, repr. 1964); J. R. Hulbert, Chaucer's Official Life (1912, repr. 1970)....
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pentameter
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......syllable and an accented syllable, is the most common English meter. Chaucer first used it in what was later called rhyme royal, seven iambic pentameters rhyming ababbcc; as Chaucer pronounced a final short e, his pentameters often end in an 11th......
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Tabard Inn
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...Tabard Inn (tăb´ərd), in Southwark borough, Greater London, England. The inn, demolished in the 19th cent., was mentioned by Geoffrey Chaucer in the Prologue of the Canterbury Tales as the starting point of Chaucer's pilgrims....
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ballade
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......with four rhymes and a five-line envoy. The envoy is used primarily as a summary or as a dedication or direct address to an important person. Ballades of Charles d'Orléans, François Villon, and Geoffrey Chaucer are well known....
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courtly love
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......works as Chrétien de Troyes's Lancelot (12th cent.), Guillaume de Lorris's Roman de la Rose (13th cent.), and Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde (14th cent.). In these works it was the subjective presentation of the lovers' passion for each......
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Gesta Romanorum
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......tale is characterized by a moral. The earliest manuscript dates from the 14th cent., but it had probably been first collected several centuries earlier. Many of the stories were used later by such authors as Chaucer and Shakespeare....