WRITER

Geoffrey Chaucer

1343 - 1400

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Geoffrey Chaucer ( CHAW-sər; c. 1343 – 25 October 1400) was an English poet, author, and civil servant best known for The Canterbury Tales. He has been called the "father of English literature", or, alternatively, the "father of English poetry". He was the first writer to be buried in what has since come to be called Poets' Corner, in Westminster Abbey. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Geoffrey Chaucer has received more than 7,044,926 page views. His biography is available in 133 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 131 in 2019). Geoffrey Chaucer is the 258th most popular writer (down from 216th in 2019), the 184th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 163rd in 2019) and the 23rd most popular British Writer.

Geoffrey Chaucer is most famous for his Canterbury Tales, a collection of stories told by a group of pilgrims on their way to Canterbury.

Memorability Metrics

  • 7.0M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 71.08

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  • 133

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.36

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 8.30

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Chaucer
1888
The works of Geoffrey Chaucer
1721
Troilus and Criseyde
1483
The Canterbury Tales
1478
A treatise on the astrolabe
1870
Poems
1800

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Geoffrey Chaucer ranks 258 out of 7,302. Before him are Kālidāsa, Nelly Sachs, François Mauriac, Anna Akhmatova, Shota Rustaveli, and Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau. After him are Sallust, Johannes V. Jensen, Svetlana Alliluyeva, Vladimir Mayakovsky, François de La Rochefoucauld, and Jami.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1343, Geoffrey Chaucer ranks 1. After him are Emperor Chōkei, Joan of Valois, Queen of Navarre, Andrea di Bonaiuto da Firenze, William I, Margrave of Meissen, Tommaso Mocenigo, Demetrios I Kantakouzenos, and Constance of Aragon, Queen of Sicily. Among people deceased in 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer ranks 2. Before him is Richard II of England. After him are Luo Guanzhong, Nilüfer Hatun, Rustichello da Pisa, Masamune, Atlantic voyage of the predecessor of Mansa Musa, Baldus de Ubaldis, Dragoș, Voivode of Moldavia, Peter of Dusburg, Antonio Venier, and André Beauneveu.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Geoffrey Chaucer ranks 184 out of 8,785. Before him are Boudica (33), Aleister Crowley (1875), Humphry Davy (1778), Charlotte Rampling (1946), Elizabeth of York (1466), and Henry III of England (1207). After him are Peter O'Toole (1932), Robert the Bruce (1274), Tony Blair (1953), Thomas Henry Huxley (1825), Saint Ursula (400), and Jason Statham (1967).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Geoffrey Chaucer ranks 23. Before him are Aldous Huxley (1894), Roald Dahl (1916), William Blake (1757), Anna Wintour (1949), J. K. Rowling (1965), and John Milton (1608). After him are Mary Wollstonecraft (1759), William Golding (1911), Arthur C. Clarke (1917), Anne Brontë (1820), C. S. Lewis (1898), and William Wordsworth (1770).

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