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    Chaucer Symbolizes, As No Other Writer Does, The Middle Ages. He Stands in Much The Same Relation

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    Chaucer was considered the first great English writer and the father of English poetry. As described by John Dryden, Chaucer was highly regarded as the foundation of good sense and learned in all subjects. Chaucer was also the first great national poet who expressed the hopes and aspirations of his time through his works. His skill at narration and introducing humor into stories made him one of the great storytellers and he was also considered the first great English humorist.

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    Chaucer was considered the first great English writer and the father of English poetry. As described by John Dryden, Chaucer was highly regarded as the foundation of good sense and learned in all subjects. Chaucer was also the first great national poet who expressed the hopes and aspirations of his time through his works. His skill at narration and introducing humor into stories made him one of the great storytellers and he was also considered the first great English humorist.

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    Chaucer was considered the first great English writer and the father of English poetry. As described by John Dryden, Chaucer was highly regarded as the foundation of good sense and learned in all subjects. Chaucer was also the first great national poet who expressed the hopes and aspirations of his time through his works. His skill at narration and introducing humor into stories made him one of the great storytellers and he was also considered the first great English humorist.

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    Chaucer symbolizes, as no other writer does, the Middle Ages.

    He stands in much the same relation


    to the life of his time as Alexander Pope does to the 18th century and Tennyson to the Victorian era.
    Chaucer’s place in English literature is more important than theirs. For this he is the first great
    English writer.

    According to John Dryden, Chaucer is the father of English poetry. Dryden venerates (honours)
    Chaucer as highly as the Greeks venerated Homer and Romans venerated Virgil. Dryden says that
    Chaucer is the perpetual foundation of good sense. He is learned in all subjects and speaks properly
    on all subjects.
    Chaucer is regarded as the first great modern. He anticipated the modern taste and the modern
    mind. No other English writer has his skill and his large human outlook.

    Chaucer was the first


    great national poet.
    He expressed the new hopes and aspiration of the people of his times. The foundation of Chaucer’s
    art lies in English life and character.

    Chaucer stands successfully in his power of description. His description and narrative gifts possess
    rare qualities. In fact, he is the first great English story teller in verse. The employment of verse is
    Chaucer’s notable contribution. In his stories the narration is straight forward and unhampered. He
    introduces humour in his narration. “The Canterbury Tales” is a collection of narrated story. As a
    poet Chaucer’s greatness is strongly founded. The power of telling story is supremely well. He is one
    of the world’s three or four story tellers.

    In English literature Chaucer is the first great painter of character. Next to Shakespeare, he is the
    greatest master of this field. He presents his character in a masterly manner. His characters are both
    individuals and types. In fact, Chaucer presents the 14th century life as clearly as Tennyson.

    He is regarded as the first great


    English humorist.
    No English literary work before him revealed (expressed) humour in the modern sense. Chaucer’s
    humour is always sympathetic. His understanding sympathy made him alive. In fact, Chaucer’s
    humour is natural and spontaneous. After all, he was the poet of man and he had large humanity.

    Realism of Chaucer
    Modern poetry is characterized by realism. The modern poet is a keen observer of his times. Chaucer
    was a great observer of men and he had an extra ordinary insight into human nature.
    His descriptions of his fellow men reveals his wide humanity. His wide sympathy and gentle
    humanity make him lovable among the English poets. He is the poet of humanity.

    Actually Chaucer is a dramatist. His characters are not dolls(puppets) but men and women of flesh
    and blood. His characters are full of vitality. His method of narration is dramatic. His characters talk
    in a dramatic manner.

    Chaucer has been called the father of English poetry. He is also the grandfather of English novel. In
    his “The Canterbury of Tales” we have the seeds of novel. It’s the fundamental characteristics of a
    novel.
    At last we can say that he is the earliest of great moderns. He stands alone and no one climbs
    equally with him for two hundred years. English language and literature became full maturity with
    Chaucer. So he is the father of English poetry.

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