# The Portable Chaucer

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- Authors: [William Chaucer](https://www.bookquiver.com/william-chaucer), [Theodore Morrison](https://www.bookquiver.com/theodore-morrison)
- Language: en_US
- Published: 1977-05-26

## Description

In the fourteenth century Geoffrey Chaucer, who served three kings as a customs official and special envoy, virtually invented English poetry. He did so by wedding the language of common speech to metrical...

## Editions

### The Portable Chaucer

- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4015-081-0
- Pages: 624
- Published: 1977-05-26
- Language: en_US