He is referred to as a noble translator and poet by and by his contemporary John Gower.
In the meantime, many of our non-essential businesses will still be running delivery, takeaway and click-and-collect services, so you can continue to support all your favourite local businesses.
Enjoy lunch in a local pub or restaurant and then head back into the city centre and enjoy a stroll around the cathedral precincts and a visit to the cathedral.
Oxford guides to Chaucer 2 ed.
The story did not originate in the works of Chaucer and was well known in the 14th century.
The movie opens with a group of medieval pilgrims journeying through the Kentish countryside as a narrator speaks the opening lines of the General Prologue.