Professor Marion Turner
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You're Dead to Me · Geoffrey Chaucer: the medieval father of English literature · 27 Feb 2026
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You know, he wrote so much.
And today, people have often only heard of The Canterbury Tales, but he wrote so much else.
So from the...
early 1370s to mid-1380s.
He writes several dream poems, so The Book of the Duchess, The House of Fame, The Parliament of Fowls, The Legend of Good Women.
He translates Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy from Latin into English.
He translates parts of the Romance of the Rose.
He writes lots of short poems and lyrics.
He writes some of the Canterbury Tales as standalone texts that then later he put into the Canterbury Tales.
Yes, exactly.
Most famously, the Knight's Tale.
So he's writing in English, whereas it would, although some people were writing in English, it would have been more normal, especially for a court poet, someone writing kind of courtly forms, you know, love visions, dreams.
It would have been more normal to write in French.
He's also very influenced by the world around him.
There's this idea that you need both, you know, you need to read the books.
He's steeped in literary influences from all kinds of places, but he's also interested in contemporary society.
And I think he does take a lot of inspiration from the things that are going on around him.
So we can link things like his great interest in different voices, in the common voice of
We might link that to things like the development of the speaker in Parliament at the time.
Yeah, exactly.
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