geofrey chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer The known facts of Chaucer’s life are fragmentary and are based almost entirely on official records. ... While working hard in the king’s court Chaucer met his future wife. ... Chaucer wrote for the courts of Edward III and Richard II. ... Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury tales had a dramatic effect on the development of English literature. In this unfinished work Chaucer used English as a literary language rather than a spoken one, giving it a greater poetic vocabulary. ... Geoffrey Chaucer was a great English poet, the first of the England and in the middle Ages nobody else could compare to.