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_b.H58 1987
082 0 0 _a92 CHA
100 1 _aHoward, Donald Roy, 1927-
245 1 0 _aChaucer
_b: his life, his works, his world
_c/ Donald R. Howard
250 _a1st ed
260 _aNew York
_b: Dutton
_c, c1987.
300 _axix, 636 p., [16] p. of plates
_b: ill.
_c; 25 cm.
500 _aMaps on lining papers.
500 _a"A William Abrahams book."
504 _aIncludes bibliographies and index.
520 _aRevered for centuries as the father of English poetry, Geoffrey Chaucer was also a central man of his age--a courtier, soldier, diplomat, public official, a man of action, and a man of the world. In this award-winning biography, Donald R. Howard recreates the public, private, and poetic life of this extraordinary man.
600 1 0 _aChaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400
650 _aPoets, English
_y-Middle English, 1100-1500
_v--Biography
942 _cMO
999 _c239722
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