An early portrait of Geoffrey Chaucer (1343?-1400) English writer, poet, author, philosopher ,astronomer and civil servant. He is recorded also as serving as Deputy Forester in the royal forest of Petherton Park in North Petherton, Somerset. His most famous work is The Canterbury Tales , and he is sometimes remembered as "The father of English literature", or, "The father of English poetry". He also worked as civil servant, a bureaucrat, courtier, diplomat, & member of parliament He was the first writer to be buried in what is now called Poets' Corner, in Westminster Abbey.

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