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 | The Portable Chaucer: Revised Edition (Portable Library) (Updated Edition) by Geoffrey Chaucer, Theodore Morrison (Editor) Paperback, 624 Pages, Published 1977 ISBN-10: 0-14-015081-1 / 0140150811 ISBN-13: 978-0-14-015081-0 / 9780140150810 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 verse, creating a medium that could accommodate tales of courtly romance, bawdy fabliaux, astu | |