Geoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343-October 25, 1400?), English author, poet, philosopher, and diplomat, is the most famous English poet of the Middle Ages. He is best known today for one of the masterpieces of world literature, The Canterbury Tales (1380-1400, numerous mss copies; 1478, one of the first books ever published in England). The book is a collection of stories shared by pilgrims as they journeyed to the shrine of Thomas Becket. Chaucer was the first poet to be buried in Poet's Corner in Westminster Abbey.