Donald R. Howard
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Chaucer: His Life, His Works, His World
Donald R. Howard
Revered for centuries as the father of English poetry, Geoffrey Chaucer was also a central man of his age—a courtier, soldier, diplomat, public official, a man of action, and a man of the world. In this award-winning biography, Donald R. Howard recreates the public, private, and poetic life of this extraordinary man.
Chaucer was born in the latter half of the fourteenth century, an age of revolution and devastation when Europe was convulsed by the Hundred Years’ War, the Black Death, and the social and intellectual upheavals that marked the “autumn of…
