GEOFFREY CHAUCER,
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Born 1321.—Died 1400.—Edward II.—Edward III.—Richard III.
Born in London, and called the first English poet, wrote the twenty-four Canterbury Tales. The scene is laid in the Tabard inn, Southwark, and the characters of noble, knight, yeoman, prioress, pardoner, parson, clerk of Oxford, reeve or steward, and Robin the miller, etc., give the best pictures of the Plantagenet times that exist.