Chaucer (about 1343 ~ 1400) is an English poet. Son of a London wine merchant. He entered the court as a policeman when he was a teenager. 1359 expedition to France with Edward III's troops, captured by the French army and redeemed soon. Chaucer has close ties with the court. He is a courtier, a customs inspector, a sheriff in Kent, and a member of the county house of commons. He has been to many countries and regions for foreign affairs, Belgium, France, Italy and other countries. He had the opportunity to meet Boccaccio and Petrarch, which had a great influence on his literary creation. Chaucer was deprived of his official position and annuity during the period when the asylum seekers fell out of favor, and fell into economic difficulties. He once wrote a doggerel to Henry IV, who had just ascended the throne, complaining about his poverty. Chaucer died at 1400 and was buried in the corner of the poet in Westminster Abbey, London.
Chaucer's poetry creation can be divided into three periods: ① French influence period (1359 ~ 1372): mainly translating and imitating the works of French poets, creating Mourning for the Duchess, and translating the French medieval narrative poem Legend of the Rose in London dialect. ② Italian influence period (1372 ~ 1386): The poet was exposed to the progressive thoughts of bourgeois humanism. The creative works of this period, such as The Hundred Birds Congress, Troy and Clayside, and The Story of a Good Woman, reflect the author's creative attitude and humanistic views in the face of life reality. ③ Maturity (1386 ~ 1400): Chaucer wrote The Canterbury Tales in the last 15 years. He reached the peak of his creation in both content and skill. His heroic couplet was widely used by later English poets and was known as "the father of English literature".