Geoffrey Chaucer

A soldier, a civil servant, a diplomat - Geoffrey Chaucer has been busy all his life on many more fronts besides being a pioneer of the world of literature. Chaucer was the first poet to use many meters and stanza forms, and to blend the French and Italian styles of writings with English. He, for the first time in history of English literature, brought into words the contemporary English world. Canterbury Tales is set on …

…Began The Cantebury Tales. 1389 Appointed Clerk of Works at Westminster, Tower of London, and other royal estates. 1391 Resigned from the post of Clerk of Works and was employed as forester for the forest of North Petherton in Somerset. 1394 Chaucer was given an annuity 20 Pounds a year by King Richard II. 1399 Chaucer took on lease a tenement for 53 years in the garden of the Lady Chapel at Westminster Abbey. 1400 Death of Geoffrey Chaucer on 25th October.