Perhaps the main reason why people still speak of Geoffrey Chaucer today—more than 600 years since his death in 1400—is because he is the author of The Canterbury Tales. This collection of stories is regarded by many to be one of the English language's greatest poetic works.
What some do not know about The Canterbury Tales is the fact that Chaucer had originally intended to include 120 short stories in the anthology. Though the stories are told on more than 17,000 lines of printed text, there it only a total of 24 stories that are read and studied today.
In death, his significance remains as he was the first to be buried in Poet's Corner in Westminster Abbey. Since his death and burial, other great writers—including Robert Browning and Charles Dickens—were laid to rest there as well.
Though The Canterbury Tales is by far his best-known work, A Treatise on the Astrolabe is another well-regarded piece of work, though it is much more technical in detail than many of his other writings.
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