AGES ERA PERIOD
THE RENAISSANCE
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Detailed explanation-1: -Geoffrey Chaucer, (born c. 1342/43, London?, England-died October 25, 1400, London), the outstanding English poet before Shakespeare and “the first finder of our language.” His The Canterbury Tales ranks as one of the greatest poetic works in English.
Detailed explanation-2: -His use of English in his poetry helped to establish Middle English vernacular as the mainstream language of the day, replacing Latin and French and in doing so, paving the way for other literary greats such as Shakespeare.
Detailed explanation-3: -He is very simple, natural and an easy going poet who is humorous, but his humor is coarse, suggestive and often paradoxical. His description is very precise and his skills of narration made Kittredge call him the greatest of all narrative poets, without any boundary of era or language.
Detailed explanation-4: -His father John Chaucer (c. 1312–1366), was a vintner (a wine merchant), who had married Agnes Copton (d. 1381), perhaps in the early 1330s.