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* Geoffrey Chaucer ( 1343-1400 ) (1) Life Experience Born in London between 1340 and 1344. He was the first established English poet buried in Westminster Abbey. (poet’s corner) John Milton, William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Burns, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, the Bront? sisters, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Thomas Gray, John Dryden, T. S. Eliot, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Samuel Johnson, Rudyard Kipling, Alexander Pope, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Dylan Thomas. (2) Early works The first period of Chaucer’s literary career includes his early works greatly influenced by French literature, especially the Roman de la Rose. He tried to translate part of the book into English. Chaucer’s chief early work: The Book of the Duchess. (3) Italian period During this time, his works were modeled primarily on Dante and Boccaccio. Representative writings: The House of Fame; The Parliament of Fowls; Troilus and Criseyde. one term related: heroic couplet Heroic couplet couplet: A unit of verse consisting of two successive lines, usually rhyming and having the same meter and often forming a complete thought or syntactic unit. The most popular of the couplets is the heroic couplet (introduced from French). A repetition of similar sounds in two or more words, most often at the end of lines in poems or songs Meter in poetry is a rhythm of accented and unaccented syllables arranged into feet. The most common is one soft foot and one hard foot and is called an Iamb. There are several kinds of meter, but most poetry uses a five-beat meter, with Iambic feet, called iambic pentameter. (5) The Great poet: Chaucer The first poet who introduced the heroic couplet The first poet who wrote in English, the dialect of London. (Middle English) The forerunner of British humanist literature: a humanist poet. Father of English literature Father of English poetry Old English Middle English Modern English —— A history I. History of the Engl