Geoffrey Chaucer
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Geoffrey Chaucer was an English poet, writer and civil servant best known for The Canterbury Tales. He has been called the 'father of English literature', or alternatively, the 'father of English poet
1412 portrait
Chaucer as a pilgrim (from the early fifteenth-century Ellesmere manuscript of the Canterbury Tales)
A nineteenth-century depiction of Chaucer
Blue plaque at the site of the Tabard inn in Southwark, London, where in 1386 the pilgrims in The Canterbury Tales set off to visit Canterbury Cathedral
Poets' Corner
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Poets' Corner is a section of the southern transept of Westminster Abbey in London, England, where many poets, playwrights, and writers are buried or commemorated.
Geoffrey Chaucer
…the 'father of English literature', or alternatively, the 'father of English poetry'. He was the first writer to be buried in what has since become Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey. Chaucer also gained fame as a philosopher and amateur astronomer, composing the scientific A Treatise on the Astrolabe for his…
Memorials in Poets' Corner
Partial view of Poets' Corner
The west wall of Poets' Corner
Grave of Charles Dickens