Chaucerian find

University of Otago English lecturer Dr Simone Celine Marshall has discovered a previously unidentified edition of the poetry of Geoffrey Chaucer, sometimes referred to as the father of English literature, and best known for The Canterbury Tales. Marshall said the find had important ramifications internationally for the study of medieval literature. There had been confusion establishing exactly which poems were his as he lived before the invention of the printing press. For many centuries many works were wrongly attributed to him. The 187 edition discovered by Marshall was the first time the distinction between works by Chaucer and those wrongly attributed to him had been made.