Geoffrey Chaucer

The Merchant (left) and the Physician from the Ellesmere manuscript of the Canterbury Tales

1386 and all that

17 January 2015 9:00 am

Sam Leith describes the frequently lonely, squalid and hapless life of the father of English poetry

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