One of his works begins with Alceste defending him against Cupid, and contains a soliloquy to daisies.  
One of his works begins with Alceste defending him against Cupid, and contains a soliloquy to daisies.  He may have coined the term "milky way" while describing being guided through a glass hall filled with notables in one work, and in another, gives Nature the voice to delay the formel's decision for a year, and ends with a rondel that speaks of driving "away the long nights black."  The Legend of Good Women and Book of the Duchess were written for his patron's wife Blanche of Lancaster, while The House of Fame and Parliament of Fowls moved from octosyllabic meter to rhyme royal.  FTP, name this author of Troilus and Cresidae and some Canterbury Tales.
One of his works begins with Alceste defending him against Cupid, and contains a soliloquy to daisies.  
Geoffrey {Chaucer}