TWA Poet: Geoffrey Chaucer

Died 1400

The birthday of Geoffrey Chaucer, the first great English poet and author of The Canterbury Tales, is unknown, and so we instead remember him on the anniversary of his death, this day in the year 1400.

He was buried in the south transept of Westminster Abbey in London, where he was a tenant and a member of the parish. Chaucer's fame increased after his d…