Geoffrey chaucer as a father of english literature

Geoffrey Chaucer (ca. ) was one of the greatest poets of the late Middle Ages (C. E. c.–) and is considered to be the father of English poetry.

Chaucer was born in to a fairly upper-middle class family, probably in London, his father being a wine merchant and king's butler’s deputy.

Poems of geoffrey chaucer

There is little information about his education, but his writings prove that he was closely familiar with many books of his contemporary writers and of earlier periods and was probably fluent in several languages (French, Italian, and Latin).

After he obtained a job as page for the Countess of Ulster, then in he joined the English Army, was captured during an unsuccessful offensive at Reims, North-Eastern France, but was eventually ransomed.

In he married Philippa de Roet and had two sons, and two daughters.

In he was Member of the royal court being the valet to King Edward III, then in began working on the "Book of the Duchess", an elegy dedicated to Blanche of Lancaster.

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