As the year 1386 began, Geoffrey Chaucer was a middle-aged
bureaucrat and sometime poet, living in London and enjoying the
perks that came with his close connections to its booming wool
trade. When it ended, he was jobless, homeless, out of favour with
his friends and living in exile. Such a reversal might have spelled
the end of his career; but instead, at the loneliest time of his
life, Chaucer made the revolutionary decision to 'maken vertu of
necessitee' and keep writing. The result - The Canterbury Tales -
was a radically new form of poetry that would make his reputation,
bring him to a national audience, and preserve his work for
posterity. In The Poet's Tale, Paul Strohm brings Chaucer's world
to vivid life, from the streets and taverns of crowded medieval
London to rural seclusion in Kent, and reveals this crucial year as
a turning point in the fortunes of England's most important poet.
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