Chaucer's Summary

    Geoffrey Chaucer is one of the most famous and admired poets of the fifteenth century. He is most known for his friendly poetic nature and his understandings of human diversity. Although many have portrayed him as the "father of English Literature", literature was around before his time. However, he is credited with many english literature firsts such as, the first novel written in modern sence in the world. Additionally, many has associated his career into three stages which are, french influence, Italian tendencies, and English realism. Chaucer's writing style is also unique because of his ability to apply the human nature to supernatural things. Chaucer also writes from a wide variety of ancient authorities to contemporary poets. On the poetry side his works range from short conventional lyrics to confessions. A major theme of Chaucer's poetry is contrasting authority with that of real life and testing the expected with the actual. The reasoning behind this is because Chauncer was able to bring out more intellectual thought from his readers. His famous writings of The Canterbury Tales, is centered as one of the best comedies of today. This collection is also one of Chaucer's most imaginative collections. Finally, the works of Chaucer left a foundation for many famous English Literature writers after his time.