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Award-winning British critic/novelist Ackroyd (Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination) presents a cogent yet entertaining biography of medieval English poet Geoffrey Chaucer. Ackroyd largely recapitulates the current, accepted view of Chaucer as the father of English poetry while also revealing Chaucer's more colorful personal history, including his royal service, a "career marriage," a murky ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More