Servant, Assistant, Yeoman, and Chaucer Geoffrey Chaucer is a poet who lived in the 1340's, during which he wrote one of his most famous works, The Canterbury Tales. In particular, he had written about two Yeomen. His birth is unknown, but his life was well known because he lived and exper...

The Artistic Observer During the period of transition before the renaissance, Petrarch and other Italian writers seemed to express the spirit of individualism that we would most closely identify with that period of time. However, the greatest English writer of the century, Geoffrey Chaucer, rema...

In the Prologue to the Caterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer is almost always polite and respectful when he points out the foibles and weaknesses of people. He is able to do this by using genial satire, which is basically having a pleasant or friendly disposition while ridiculing human vices and foll...