English language experts say Geoffrey Chaucer was the first important writer to use the English language.

VOA: special.2011.01.05

None of England's pre-Miltonic poets -- Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare had dared to suggest -- and it would never have occurred to them to suggest that theirs was actually a divine vocation.

在弥尔顿之前，包括乔叟，斯潘塞和莎士比亚,没人敢这么说-他们从不敢,说自己的职业是神圣的。

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Listen for a few moments as Warren Scheer reads the beginning of Chaucer's famous "Canterbury Tales."

VOA: special.2011.01.05

The story of the swan's last song found a place in the works of other writers, including the early English writers Chaucer and Shakespeare.

VOA: special.2010.04.11

Chaucer's most famous work is "The Canterbury Tales,"

VOA: special.2011.01.05