AGES ERA PERIOD
MIDDLE AGES
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Geoffrey Chaucer
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Marie de France
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Chrt´ien de Troyes
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b and c only
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Detailed explanation-1: -Geoffrey Chaucer was one of the best English poets of all time, considered a father of English language and literature. Before the likes of Shakespeare, Chaucer dominated the literary scene, most famous for his work ‘The Canterbury Tales’.
Detailed explanation-2: -Geoffrey Chaucer is considered one of the first great English poets. He is the author of such works as The Parlement of Foules, Troilus and Criseyde, and The Canterbury Tales. Humorous and profound, his writings show him to be an acute observer of his time with a deft command of many literary genres.
Detailed explanation-3: -1) Chaucer had at least nine other major works besides the Canterbury Tales, and wrote a number of short poems as well. 2) There’s a crater on the far side of the moon named for Chaucer. 3) Chaucer had a part-time government job collecting scrap metal for reuse and also worked as a diplomat.
Detailed explanation-4: -We don’t know when Chaucer was born, but a document dating to 1386 describes him as ‘forty and more’, so his date of birth was probably in the early 1340s. He was born into a prosperous merchant family in London. His father John Chaucer (c. 1312–1366), was a vintner (a wine merchant), who had married Agnes Copton (d.