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The Canterbury tales Geoffrey Chaucer Contributions Father of English poetry ? Chaucer, for the first time in English literature, presented to us a comprehensive realistic picture of the English society of his time and created a whole gallery of vivid characters from all walks of life in his masterpiece The Canterbury Tales. ? Chaucer develops characterization to a higher artistic level, i.e. characters who are morally and socially typical but exquisitely individual and realistic in detail. ? Chaucer introduced from France the rhymed stanzas of various types to English poetry to replace t