Professor Marion Turner
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 29 May
Professor Marion Turner’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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This is fairly middle-aged Geoffrey Chaucer.
Yeah, I mean, The Book of the Duchess is the first poem that has survived.
So he may have written earlier poems.
He may have written poems in French when he was younger.
That's what most people were writing in French.
But the earliest poem that has survived, yeah, he's around 30, early 1370s.
And then he was just prolific.
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.
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