Reading Chaucer's Poems

by Geoffrey Chaucer and Bernard O'Donoghue

Geoffrey Chaucer is rightly regarded as the Father of English Literature. His observant wit, his narrative skill and characterization, his linguistic invention, have been a well from which the language's greatest writers have drawn: Shakespeare, Pope, Austen, Dickens among them. A courtier, a trade emissary and diplomat, he fought in the Hundred Years War and was captured and ransomed; his marriage into the family of John of Gaunt ensured his influence...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0571230652
• ISBN13: 9780571230655
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.1"
• Age Range: 7 to 9 years
• Grade Range: Grades 2 to 4