Biography of Geoffrey Chaucer... Since we just wrapped up the Canterbury Tales

Scanlon, Larry. "Geoffrey Chaucer," The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Literature, 1100-1500. Ed. Larry Scanlon. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. 165-178.

I found this article on Chaucer's life while paging through a book trying to find something that might be helpful for my longer paper. I didn't think it would be super helpful, but it actually provided me some insights into Chaucer's life that explained his writings a little bit in addition to finding some things that might be helpful for my longer paper (and for other people's!) - I'm not sure if you would be able to find this article online or not, but if you want to look at the article, let me know and we can work something out.
Here's some things in the article that I found interesting or that I thought might be helpful for papers:

-Scanlon argues that Chaucer is the most monumental of English poets, even more so than Shakespeare... Having read both Chaucer and Shakespeare, I'm not sure that I necessarily agree with this, but it would be a really interesting discussion to have and it's one that I wish we could have in class!
-Scanlon raises the fact that there is a debate among scholars about whether Chaucer is an English poet or European poet? Since he drew from Latin/Italian traditions, and from French models, some scholars argue that Chaucer should be considered more of a European poet, rather than just an English poet.
-This article provides a summary of Chaucer's other works, and highlights key points of each, especially noting which works were DREAM VISIONS (was there a dream vision final paper? This might be helpful if so).
-There's a small analysis of the Retraction in Canterbury Tales which I found interesting to read given our discussion of it in class and wished that the article would have spent more time with it.
-There was a small analysis of the different classes Chaucer presents on the pilgrimages (helpful for me!) and why he might include these different classes.
-The article also gives a list of other texts that we might find interesting and/or helpful within the essay itself and explains the important trends that these other works point out and kind of categorizes them.