GK
BOOKS AND AUTHORS
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Milton
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Wordsworth
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Chaucer
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Charles Dickens
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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: -ASU event honors “father of English literature” Geoffrey Chaucer.
Detailed explanation-3: -Nissim Ezekie may be justifiably called the father of post-independence and modern poetry of India and, through the influence of Indian literature on the entire subcon-tinent, the father of the postcolonial South Asian English poetry as well.
Detailed explanation-4: -Chaucer is known for his metrical innovations. He invented Rhyme Royal stanza pattern which is a seven lined stanza in iambic pentameter with a rhyme scheme of ababbcc. He was also one of the first to use blank verse for his poetry with only a few anonymous short works using it before him.