Oton de Granson: Poems

Oton de Granson was first acknowledged for his poetry by Geoffrey Chaucer, who called him the ""flour of hem that make in Fraunce [the flower of those that write poetry in France]."" Almost certainly a personal friend to both Chaucer and Eustache Deschamps, Granson was among the first and most successful of the poets who were also courtiers. Born to the highest nobility in his native Savoy, he was well known in the courts of both France and England, and he spent the better part of his career in the service of the English king.