In 1395, English author and poet, Geoffrey Chaucer, known for writing The Canterbury Tales, The Knight’s Tale, and many other books and poems, and was dubbed by some, The Father of English Literature, ...

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A university in England has put over 200 trigger warnings on Shakespeare works and adaptations for things such as the ...

Bloomberg Distinguished Professor Christopher Cannon makes Chaucer's complete works available in a new scholarly-yet-accessible set ...

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A lot of it is only accessible with a reader pass (which is easy enough to get), but the Treasures Gallery holds some true jewels: the Magna Carta, Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, several works ...

You may have read Geoffrey Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" in a high school English ... Oruch argued that Chaucer's 1375 poem “Parlement of Foules” was the first to record St. Valentine's ...

In search of Buddhist conscience (Baudha Hurdasakshiya Soya) (Part II of this article appeared in The Island on Monday – 03) Tissa Ranasinghe’s and Gananath’s Kannagi Gananath’s Pattini book has a ...

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