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Buoyantly blending biography with history and literary criticism, this engaging new life of Geoffrey Chaucer follows the career of a man whose courtly offices situated him at the center of cultural and political activity in medieval London and whose poetry, especially the masterwork The Canterbury Tales, became a primary force in the evolution of modern English.West, Richard is the author of 'Chaucer, 1340-1400: The Life and Times of the First English Poet - Richard West' with ISBN 9780786707799 and ISBN 0786707798.
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