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Geoffrey Chaucer was a medieval English poet often called the father of English literature, author of The Canterbury Tales, who established English as a literary language.
Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343–1400) was a courtier, diplomat, and civil servant as well as a poet, and his wide experience of medieval life informs the rich human comedy of his work.
His masterpiece, The Canterbury Tales, presents a varied company of pilgrims journeying to Canterbury, each telling a story, in a vivid, witty, and humane panorama of medieval society. By writing major poetry in the English vernacular rather than Latin or French, Chaucer helped establish English as a literary language and shaped its subsequent development.
Chaucer is honored as a foundational figure of English literature, his characters and storytelling still vivid and entertaining six centuries later.
by Geoffrey Chaucer
A group of pilgrims travelling to the shrine of Thomas Becket at Canterbury agree to tell stories to pass the time. Each tale reflects its teller — the Knight's romance, the Miller's bawdy fabliau, the Wife of Bath's self-portrait, the Pardoner's moral tale told by an immoral man. The foundational work of English literature.
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