"Geoffrey Chaucer"
Geoffrey Chaucer ( 1343 -London – 25 October 1400), known as the Father of English literature, is considered the greatest English poet of the Middle ages and was the first poet to be buried in Poets' Corner (Angolo dei poeti) of Westminister Abbey.
He was the son of a wine merchant and he worked as a controller of the customs for the Port of London and took part in important diplomatic missions.
He found employment in the house of John of Gaunt,son of King Edward III of England. In response to the death of John of Gaunt's first wife, he wrote one of his most important works, The Book of the Duchess.
One of his important poems is The Cantebury Tales (ca. 1387-1400). It is unfinished narrative poem and it tells the story of the Pilgrims. They went to Cantebury.
Chaucer wrote in continental accentual-syllabic meter, a style which had developed since around the 12th century as an alternative to the alliterative Anglo-Saxon metre.
Chaucer is known for metrical innovation, inventing the rhyme royal l, and he was one of the first English poets to use the five-stress line, a decasyllabic cousin to the iambic pentameter, in his work, with only a few anonymous short works using it before him.
What characterizes the poetic style of Chaucer is detachment (staccamento) from allegory and by the rules of the chivalric literature of the Middle Ages.(Norme della letteratura cavalleresca del Medioevo).
Some scholars also argue that Chaucer was the first author to have proved the legitimacy of English literature in the vernacular. In an era in which England poetry was written mainly in Latin, French and Anglo-Norman. Chaucer made use of the vernacular raising (elevando) the English language of his time to literary language.
What characterizes the poetic style of Chaucer is detachment (staccamento) from allegory and by the rules of the chivalric literature of the Middle Ages.(Norme della letteratura cavalleresca del Medioevo).
Some scholars also argue that Chaucer was the first author to have proved the legitimacy of English literature in the vernacular. In an era in which England poetry was written mainly in Latin, French and Anglo-Norman. Chaucer made use of the vernacular raising (elevando) the English language of his time to literary language.
Fact-file:
Born:Ca. 1343
London, England.
Died: 25 October 1400 (aged 56–57).
Resting place: Westminister Abbey, London.
Occupation: Author, poet, philosopher,bureaucrat, diplomat.
Spouse(s) : Philippa Roet.
Children: Elizabeth Chaucer and
Thomas Chaucer.
Parent(s): John Chaucer
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