Professor Marion Turner

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759 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 29 May

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You're Dead to Me · Geoffrey Chaucer (Radio Edit) · 29 May 2026 podcast

That's why he gets buried there, because he lives there.

Not because Poets' Corner existed there.

Yeah, there was no Poets' Corner at the time.

Yeah, I mean, it would have been more normal for him to have been buried in St Margaret's Westminster.

He must have had a good relationship with the monks for them to bury him there.

But it's because he lives there and it's later his tomb gets moved and Poets' Corner gets started.

But yes, certainly in the last year of his life, we see him writing a poem to the new king asking for his money.

Oh, great.

Yeah.

Yeah, Complaint to His Purse.

So he dies in 1400 by the end of October.

I'm going to talk about Chaucer and character.

So when people think of Chaucer, they often think about his characters, the wife of Bath, the miller, the knight, the host.

And Chaucer did two really significant things with literary character.

First of all, he developed the idea of the unreliable narrator.

So in many of his poems, the person telling the story is biased and withholds part of the story or lets their prejudices come through in the telling.

So they're not objective.

And the idea of unreliable narration was to become a really key part of the novel.

We see it especially in modern novels such as Lolita, for example.

Chaucer shows us that what we see is dependent on where we are standing.

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