Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400 65438+1October 25th) was a poet, philosopher, alchemist and astronomer. He is known as the father of English literature, the greatest English poet in the Middle Ages and the first poet buried in Westminster Abbey.
Geoffrey Chaucer devoted himself to serving the people and worked as an official, courtier and diplomat. He wrote The Duchess's Book, Hall of Fame, The Length of a Good Wife, troilus and the clergy, etc.
One of The most famous is Cumberland Tales (The? Canterbury? Stories. In the Middle Ages, French and Latin were the main literary languages, and Geoffrey Chaucer played an important role in promoting the orthodoxy of English dialects.
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Chaucer's Literary Features
Chaucer's narrator is keen on reading and an outsider in love. His understanding of love comes not from personal experience, but from a lot of reading. Chaucer himself, as a poet, most of his works, especially dream poems, are based on his reading, not from life.
Authority, not experience or reality, is the source of his writing. This is also in line with the literary tradition of the Middle Ages. The mainstream literature in the Middle Ages, whether it is religious literature or court literature, is essentially far away from real life and immersed in a world designed in people's minds and recognized by people through "authority".
People in the Middle Ages lived a hard life, and wars, diseases, natural disasters and man-made disasters all threatened their daily lives. They either pin their hopes on religion, or indulge in idealized and stylized court love and chivalry, or dream of a distant and beautiful classical "golden age".
The typical literary genres in the Middle Ages, such as dreams and fables, all reflect the psychological tendency of being divorced from reality in the Middle Ages, which really enables poets to get rid of the scope of real life and freely sample an illusory world constructed by "authority". Chaucer's main works rely heavily on dreams and books, which proves his characteristics as a medieval writer.
Chaucer is eclectic in classical literature and new literature, and his works are reminiscent of Ovid, Virgil, Levi, poitiers, Petrarch, Dante, Jean de Mohn and other writers. He once translated the works of some of the above writers into English, which was very popular at that time. Because printing has not yet come out and there are few books, Chaucer often contacts and grasps ancient documents through oral form.
He took what he needed from other writers' works and recreated it with superb narrative skills, making it an immortal chapter. His greatest feature is humor. Chaucer's humor is lively, quiet and elegant, or rough and rich.
Reference source? Baidu Encyclopedia-Geoffrey Chaucer