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About Geoffrey Chaucer

Geoffrey Chaucer (; JEF-ree CHAW-sər; c. 1343 – 25 October 1400) was an English poet, writer and civil servant best known for The Canterbury Tales. He has been called the 'father of English literature', or alternatively, the 'father of English poetry'. He was the first writer to be buried in what has since become Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey.

Chaucer also gained fame as a philosopher and amateur astronomer, composing the scientific A Treatise on the Astrolabe for his ten-year-old son, Lewis. He maintained a career in public service as a bureaucrat, courtier, diplomat and member of the Parliament of England, having been elected shire knight for Kent.

Amongst his other works are The Book of the Duchess, The House of Fame, The Legend of Good Women, Troilus and Criseyde, and Parlement of Foules. A prolific writer, Chaucer has been seen as crucial in legitimising the literary use of Middle English at a time when the dominant literary languages in England were still Anglo-Norman French and Latin. His contemporary Thomas Hoccleve hailed him as "the firste fyndere of our fair langage" (i.e., the first one capable of finding poetic matter in English). Almost two thousand English words are first attested in Chaucerian manuscripts.

Geoffrey Chaucer writes about Poetry, Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages, Poetry (poetic works by one author), Geoffrey Chaucer (d. 1400), England, and Medieval Tales. Their best-known work is The Canterbury Tales.

On FindMyTBR we track 18 books by Geoffrey Chaucer, 17 of them confirmed as audiobooks on Spotify or Apple Books — including Canterbury Tales, Chaucer's Troilus And Criseyde, and Poems By Geoffrey Chaucer. Full availability across Spotify, Apple Books, Audible, and Amazon is below.