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Geoffrey Chaucer Biography

Geoffrey Chaucer (1340s-1400)
Geoffrey Chaucer is one of the most famous English poet and author from middle age
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Chaucer is known as the "father of English
literature" and the "father of English poetry"
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He influenced William
Shakespeare mainly by popularising the English language and iambic pentameter
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It is believed that he was born during 1340 Some People guess that he was born in
1342,1343 etc
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His Father is John Chaucer and mother's
name was Agnes Copton
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In 1357 he became a public servant to Countess Elizabeth of Ulster· After Countess
Elizabeth married Lionel of Antwerp, Duke of Clarence who was the Son of Edward III, he
worked in the Royal court
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He was captured by the French during The
Hundred years' war in 1360 and Edward the king of England paid £16 For his safe return
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Then around
1366, he married Philipa (de) Roet
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He was also a mentere of court
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When John Gaunt's wife died Geoffrey Chaucer wrote "The Book of the Duchess" to
commemorate
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In 1378 Cohen Richard II was the king, he sent
Geoffrey Chaucer to Milan as a secret agent
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In "The
Canterbury tales" he described John Hawkwood in the first tale "The Knight's Tale" as the
knight
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There he started working as a
commissioner
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He also
introduced a Rhyming Stanza technique in English poetry
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He was the first English poet who used iambic

pentameter in this way
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The most famous work by Geoffrey Chaucer is " The bCanterbury Tales"
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It is a collection of 24 Stories that runs to over 17,000 lines written in Middle
English by him between 1387 and 1400
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So this is an unfinished work but
still one of the most famous works by Geoffrey Chaucer in the history of English literature
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He wrote it for John Gaunt • Two early
works by Geoffrey Chaucer are "Anelida and Arcite" and "House of Fame"
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After his death John Lydgate was first person who tried to continue and copy his Tales
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Sir Philip Sidney
also praised Chaucer in his work "A Defence of Poesie: And Poems"
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He also gave the first two edition of
Geoffrey Chaucer's work "The Canterbury Tales" in 1478 and 1483
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Geoffrey Chaucer was one of the Greatest English Poet, writer, Painter and author
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The legendary 14th Century English Poet
Geoffrey Chaucer died on October 25, 1400 in London, England
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He was buried in Westminster Abbey

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