Geoffrey Chaucer was an English poet, author and diplomat. He was born sometime around 1343 although his exact birthday is unknown; he died on October 25, 1400 in his late 50s. In his lifetime, Chaucer produced many works but he is best known for his unfinished The Canterbury Tales. The Tales are a collection of stories which follow a group of pilgrims on the road to the Canterbury cathedral. Scholars give Chaucer credit for the shaping of English Literature and honor him with the title of “Father of English Literature.”
Canterbury Tales
• Harvard University: Canterbury Tales with interlinear translation
• Luminarium: Online texts, study resources and audio recordings
• University of Virginia: The entire works with numbered passages
• British Library: Caxton’s Chaucer full text in two editions
• NPR: The new Canterbury Tales
• Jane Zatta: Studies in the age of Chaucer
• Archive.org: 1914 edition of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales
• LibriVox: Recordings of the Tales
• University of St. Thomas: Introduction to Chaucer’s Tales
• Project Gutenberg: Download the full work
Bibliographies
• UTSA: Chaucer bibliography online
• Baylor: An indexed bibliography
• Bartleby: Chaucer bibliography
• University of Alberta: A Chaucer bibliography
• University of Waterloo: Bibliography of Chaucer’s works
Other Resources
• University of Michigan: Glossarial database
• New Advent: Chaucer metapage
• Towson University: Chaucer course works
• University of Maine: Chaucer in the 21st century
• University of Wisconsin: The classic texts
• Washington State University: Chaucer resources on the Web
• Fordham University: Medieval sourcebook
• University of Alaska: The electronic Canterbury Tales
• Oxford Collection: Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales, 15th century
• National Portrait Gallery: Images of Geoffrey Chaucer
• University of California: Visual resources, texts and criticisms
• Virginia Military Institute: Audio file and texts
• The Online Medieval & Classical Library: Online Chaucer texts
• An Sonjae: A survey of Geoffrey Chaucer
• Yale University: Chaucer lecture
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