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Nevill Coghill was an English poet, critic, and scholar who helped edit the three tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. He was born in London in 1899 and died in 1989. Coghill was a Fellow of the British Academy and was awarded the Order of the Companions of Honour in 1963. He is best known for his work on Chaucer, including his editions of the Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde.