| The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. 2002. |
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| Chaucer, Geoffrey |
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| (CHAW-suhr) A fourteenth-century English poet, called the father of English poetry: he was the first great poet to write in the English language. Chaucer’s best-known work is The Canterbury Tales. | 1 |
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| | | The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. Edited by E.D. Hirsch, Jr., Joseph F. Kett, and James Trefil. Copyright © 2002 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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