Chaucer, father of English poetry

Kendall, Bridget; Steiner, Emily; Flannery, Mary; Bale, Anthony (2020). Chaucer, father of English poetry [Audio]. In: The Forum. BBC Radio 4.

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Geoffrey Chaucer has been called the father of English poetry and the greatest poet in English before Shakespeare. He is best known for The Canterbury Tales, stories told by a band of pilgrims on their way from London to the shrine of Thomas Becket who was murdered in Canterbury Cathedral two centuries before. Chaucer’s was an age of plague, war and revolt and his pilgrims bring insight into the life and values of those tumultuous times, from the bawdy Miller and the earthy Wife of Bath to the corrupt Pardoner and the Knight whose chivalry was increasingly out of step with the times.

Item Type:	Audiovisual Material & Event (Audio)
Division/Institute:	06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Linguistics and Literary Studies > Institute of English Languages and Literatures
UniBE Contributor:	Flannery, Mary Colleen
Subjects:	800 Literature, rhetoric & criticism > 820 English & Old English literatures 400 Language > 420 English & Old English languages
Publisher:	BBC
Language:	English
Submitter:	Mary Colleen Flannery
Date Deposited:	19 Apr 2021 09:43
Last Modified:	05 Dec 2022 15:49
URI:	https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/154584