Geoffrey Chaucer
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Among Chaucer's many other works are ''The Book of the Duchess'', ''The House of Fame'', ''The Legend of Good Women'', and ''Troilus and Criseyde''. He is seen as crucial in legitimising the literary use of Middle English when the dominant literary languages in England were still Anglo-Norman French and Latin. Chaucer's contemporary Thomas Hoccleve hailed him as "" (i.e., the first one capable of finding poetic matter in English). Almost two thousand English words are first attested to in Chaucerian manuscripts. As scholar Bruce Holsinger has argued, charting Chaucer's life and work comes with many challenges related to the "difficult disjunction between the written record of his public and private life and the literary corpus he left behind". His recorded works and his life show many personas that are "ironic, mysterious, elusive [or] cagey" in nature, ever-changing with new discoveries. Provided by Wikipedia
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Published: [2019]
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Published: [2021]
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Published: [2023]
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Superior document: First Avenue classics
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Published: 1992.
Superior document: Routledge English texts
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Published: 2001.
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Published: 2011.
Superior document: Oxford world's classics
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Published: 1969.
Superior document: Athlone Press texts for schools and colleges
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Published: [1915]
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Published: 2023.
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Published: [2013]
Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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