Geoffery Chaucer

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Though Chacuer was an amazing writer most of his life is
fragmentary, but there is a lot of it. A lot of people's lives back then
were difficult to document. He was an extraordinary man, a great poet
who was courtier, soldier, learned man, much travelled minor diplomat.
The range of his experience and interests is amazing, from common life
and bawedy talkes to puritanical religion.
He knew an assortion of people of all backgrounds from French to
Flemish. His attitudes ranged from sentimental feeling for small
children, to a deep inerest in love. Chaucer's age has never been
determinded for sure but has been speculated by the finding of a receat
from a tailor, when Chaucer was being fitted for a uniform for work,
meaning he would have had to have been between the ages of 13 and
18. This placing his birth between the years 1340-1344 in London, the
son of John Chaucer a vintner. In 14th century London there were three
elementary schools of good "academic" ...

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life-like character
who bore the title of squire. But what must have been the most
rewarding accomplishment for Chaucer himslef in his won courtyly
education is not on the list of acquisitions of his Squire knows how to
"wel endite" (Bowden 9) that is, how to compose very well the lyrics for
songs. Fourteeth-century squires were expected to make perfect the art
of writing verse. Famous French authors such as Guillame de Lorris fo
Le Roman de la Rose, Deschamps, Froissart, and Machaut were the
foundation for Chaucer's first poems.
With most of his life based on the serving of others Chaucer decided
to joing the English army (1359-60) under Edward III. He was captured
by ...

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