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    Chaucer is considered the father of English poetry. His most famous work, The Canterbury Tales, is a collection of stories told by pilgrims traveling to Canterbury. Through his vivid characters that represent different classes of English society, Chaucer displays his skill in characterization and establishes himself as a storyteller, novelist, and dramatist who enriched the English language. The Canterbury Tales was innovative for introducing a variety of finished characters engaged in intimate dialogue, and placed Chaucer at the forefront of English poetry.

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    Chaucer is considered the father of English poetry. His most famous work, The Canterbury Tales, is a collection of stories told by pilgrims traveling to Canterbury. Through his vivid characters that represent different classes of English society, Chaucer displays his skill in characterization and establishes himself as a storyteller, novelist, and dramatist who enriched the English language. The Canterbury Tales was innovative for introducing a variety of finished characters engaged in intimate dialogue, and placed Chaucer at the forefront of English poetry.

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    The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales by Chaucer

    General points
    1. Chaucer is the real founder of English poetry and is rightly called the Father of
    English poetry .

    2. Chaucer made a fresh beginning in English poetry.

    3. Chaucer's education as a poet was two-fold: a part of it came from French and
    Italian literature and the other part of it came from life.

    4. Chaucer was not merely bookish and least visionary man. Like Shakespeare

    \and Milton he was a man of worldly affairs.


    5. "Canterbury Tales" is Chaucer's remarkable and famous work which is a
    collection of stories related by the pilgrims on their way to the shrines of Thomas
    Becket at Canterbury.
    6. These pilgrims represent different sections of the contemporary society of
    England.
    7. The description of these characters shows Chaucer's narrative power as a poet
    8. All these characters are individualized yet their thoroughly typical qualities
    give a unique value to Chaucer's picture of men and manners in England of his
    time.
    9. "Canterbury Tales" is a land mark in the history of English poetry because here
    Chaucer enriches the English language and meter to such an extent that now it
    could be conveniently used for any purpose.
    10. By introducing a variety of highly finished characters into a single action and
    engage them in an intimated dialogue, Chaucer fulfilled every requirement of a
    dramatist.
    11. By drawing finished and various portraits in verse, Chaucer showed the way to
    the novelists to portray characters.
    12. Chaucer's work fall into three periods:
    in first period he imitated FRENCH models .
    in second period he imitated Italian models
    in third period he imitated English models
    13. Chaucer's third period may be called English period because in it he threw off
    foreign influences and showed native originality.
    14." Canterbury Tales” is his greatest poetic achievement which places him in the
    heart of London. Here we find his gentle, kind humor, which is Chaucer's greatest
    quality, at its very best.
    15. among his chief characteristics are his delightful freshness and simplicity, his
    roguish genital humor ---------------he was full of quaint fun, his heart felt love of
    nature. his tender pathos , his knowledge of women ,his love for his dear old
    books, his power of life like portraiture ,his admirable way of story-telling and
    perfection of his verses
    16. During his Italian period Baccaccio alone exercised a deep influence on
    Chaucer's art
    17. The main difference between Chaucer and Baccaccio is that Chaucer
    emphasizes characters rather than passions while Baccaccio emphasis passion
    18. Chaucer's skill in characterization is well pronounced in the Prologue and
    each one of his characters comes to our view in full form exhibiting the
    particularities of his or her class.
    19. Various features of Chaucer's poetry are
    story telling
    narrative poet
    a novelist
    dramatic approach
    descriptive poet
    realistic poet
    humorist
    humorous irony
    20 Chaucer’s imagery is of simplest kind .he takes similes and comparisons from
    real life

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