ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -On this day in history, 11th March 1609, Tudor poet and lawyer William Warner was buried at the Church of St John the Baptist at Great Amwell in Hertfordshire. 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".

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -Along with William Shakespeare and John Milton, Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400) is the third name in the pantheon of most-influential English writers. Best known for the Canterbury Tales, Chaucer was considered by admirers as the founding figure of English poetry as early as the 15th century.

Detailed explanation-4: -Chaucer wrote during the final decades of the fourteenth century; hence, his language belongs to the later Middle English period. An important feature of the division between the Middle and the Early Modern periods was the emergence of a standard written variety of English.