Specimen extracts from the nine known unprinted mss. of Chaucer's "Troilus" and from Caxton's and Thynne's first editions

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“Specimen extracts from the nine known unprinted mss. of Chaucer's "Troilus" and from Caxton's and Thynne's first editions” is a book by Geoffrey Chaucer in the “General & Other” category, written in English. It is in the public domain, so you can read it for free from the open source using the buttons above. If you enjoyed it, press Like to help others find it. Similar books are listed below.

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Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343–1400) was the son of a London wine merchant and spent his life in royal service: as a page, a soldier captured in France and ransomed with the king's help, a diplomat on missions to Italy and a controller of customs in the port of London.

In his spare time he wrote Troilus and Criseyde and The Canterbury Tales, and he was one of the first to make English, rather than French or Latin, the language of serious poetry. He was buried in Westminster Abbey, beginning the tradition of Poets' Corner.