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Geoffrey Chaucer
Life
Geoffrey Chaucer was born in London into a middle-class family in 1343.
His father sent him to be a pageboy in the household of Prince Lionel.
In 1359 during one of Edward III 's frequent expeditions in France, Geoffrey Chaucer was captured and was ransomed for a large sum.
In addition to diplomatic trips to France, Chaucer also went to Flanders and to Italy.
He became Justice of the Peace and Knight of the Shire for Kent and its Member of Parliament in 1386.
At the end of his life, he rentered a house in the garden of Westminster Abbey.
He died in 1400.
His father sent him to be a pageboy in the household of Prince Lionel.
In 1359 during one of Edward III 's frequent expeditions in France, Geoffrey Chaucer was captured and was ransomed for a large sum.
In addition to diplomatic trips to France, Chaucer also went to Flanders and to Italy.
He became Justice of the Peace and Knight of the Shire for Kent and its Member of Parliament in 1386.
At the end of his life, he rentered a house in the garden of Westminster Abbey.
He died in 1400.
Geoffrey Chaucer was buried in Westminster Abbey, in a wing that would later take the name of Poets' Corner.
Chaucer's literary production is divided into three phases: French, Italian and English.
During his French phase his poetic models were the long allegorical poems on courtly love such as Le roman de la rose.
In his Italian phase the best work is Troilus and Criseyde.
The poem shows great technical ability and is a psychologically penetrating discussion on the nature of human love.
His English phase is best represented by The Canterbury tales , a collection of verse tales which is one of the major works in English literature.
Chaucer is called the father of English poetry because he established the East Midlands and London dialect as the dominant form of literary language.
Chaucer was also a great metrical innovator: he introduced the five-stress line into English versification, technically known as the iambic pentameter.
During his French phase his poetic models were the long allegorical poems on courtly love such as Le roman de la rose.
In his Italian phase the best work is Troilus and Criseyde.
The poem shows great technical ability and is a psychologically penetrating discussion on the nature of human love.
His English phase is best represented by The Canterbury tales , a collection of verse tales which is one of the major works in English literature.
Chaucer is called the father of English poetry because he established the East Midlands and London dialect as the dominant form of literary language.
Chaucer was also a great metrical innovator: he introduced the five-stress line into English versification, technically known as the iambic pentameter.
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