AGES ERA PERIOD
MIDDLE AGES
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Sir Thomas Malory
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Geoffrey Chaucer
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Caedmon
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John Gower
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Detailed explanation-1: -Geoffrey Chaucer (/ˈtʃɔːsər/; c. 1340s – 25 October 1400) was an English poet, author, and civil servant best known for The Canterbury Tales. He has been called the “father of English literature", or, alternatively, the “father of English poetry".
Detailed explanation-2: -Geoffrey Chaucer is known as the “Father of English Poetry".
Detailed explanation-3: -Not many people today have heard of William Warner, but he was a well-respected and well-known poet in the Tudor era and even described as “our English Homer". He is known for his huge poem, “Albion’s England, or, Historicall Map of the same Island". Find out more about this poet in today’s talk.
Detailed explanation-4: -It was John Dryden who called Geoffrey Chaucer the ‘father of English poetry. ‘ Dryden did this in the preface of his book, Fables, Ancient and Modern, which was published in 1700.
Detailed explanation-5: -Ever since the end of the 14th century, Chaucer has been known as the “father of English poetry, ” a model of writing to be imitated by English poets. “He was one of the first poets of his day to write exclusively in English (his contemporary John Gower, for example, wrote in Latin, French, and English).