... the royal family. Chaucer claimed to have translated le roman de la rose. His first important work is about an elegy for john of Gaunt's first wife, the book of duchess. The house of fame and the Parlement of Foules are also the same style as Chaucer's first important work. In the house of fame, although unfinished, gives funny accounts of ... of the records pertained to his career as a courtier and civil servant under the English kings Edward III and Richard II. His father was a prosperous wine merchant in London. Chaucer my have attended the Latin grammar school of Saint Paul's Cathed...

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