Geoffrey Chaucer was a writer and an outstanding English poet. He is remembered as the author of The Canterbury Tales, which is known as one of the greatest works of world literature. Little is known of his early education, but his works show that he could read French, Latin, and Italian. He had his own style for writting poetry that was admired by many people. After he died people were so inspired by his work that he had a part of a church named after him which camed to be called Poet's Corner.