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Geoffrey Chaucer

1343 - 1400

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Geoffrey Chaucer ( ; JEF-ree CHAW-sər; c. 1343 – 25 October 1400) was an English poet, writer and civil servant best known for The Canterbury Tales. He has been called the 'father of English literature', or alternatively, the 'father of English poetry'. He was the first writer to be buried in what has since become Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey. Chaucer also gained fame as a philosopher and astronomer, composing the scientific A Treatise on the Astrolabe for his ten-year-old son, Lewis. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Geoffrey Chaucer is the 202nd most popular writer (up from 258th in 2019), the 175th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 184th in 2019) and the 21st most popular British Writer.

Geoffrey Chaucer is most famous for his Canterbury Tales, a collection of stories told by a group of pilgrims on their way to Canterbury.

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Among writers, Geoffrey Chaucer ranks 202 out of 7,302. Before him are Johannes V. Jensen, Menander, François-René de Chateaubriand, Orhan Pamuk, Friedrich Hölderlin, and Joseph Conrad. After him are Aldous Huxley, Imre Kertész, Luís de Camões, David Woodard, Ahmad ibn Hanbal, and Svetlana Alexievich.

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Among people born in 1343, Geoffrey Chaucer ranks 1. After him are Emperor Chōkei, Joan of Valois, Queen of Navarre, Tommaso Mocenigo, Andrea di Bonaiuto da Firenze, Demetrios I Kantakouzenos, Constance of Aragon, Queen of Sicily, and William I, Margrave of Meissen. Among people deceased in 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer ranks 1. After him are Richard II of England, Nilüfer Hatun, Luo Guanzhong, Atlantic voyage of the predecessor of Mansa Musa, Rustichello da Pisa, Masamune, Baldus de Ubaldis, Peter of Dusburg, André Beauneveu, Frederick I, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, and Dragoș, Voivode of Moldavia.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Geoffrey Chaucer ranks 175 out of 8,785. Before him are Patrick Blackett (1897), Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (1830), Robert Edwards (1925), Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson (1758), Jeremy Bentham (1748), and Mark Knopfler (1949). After him are Philip Noel-Baker (1889), Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia (1596), Aldous Huxley (1894), Robert Brown (1773), Mary Boleyn (1499), and Henry Purcell (1659).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Geoffrey Chaucer ranks 21. Before him are Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806), Robert Louis Stevenson (1850), Walter Scott (1771), Anna Wintour (1949), John Milton (1608), and Charlotte Brontë (1816). After him are Aldous Huxley (1894), Terry Pratchett (1948), William Blake (1757), W. H. Auden (1907), C. S. Lewis (1898), and J. K. Rowling (1965).

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