Canterbury tales
Chaucer's masterpiece The Canterbury Tales is Geoffrey Chaucer's mature work. This book shows Chaucer's best works in both content and expression. In this book, Geoffrey Chaucer created the League of Legends, which was widely studied and used by later English poets in their later works.
It is another masterpiece of Geoffrey Chaucer, because it is Geoffrey Chaucer's first work. He is proficient in French literature and Italian literature. Because these are the objects of Geoffrey Chaucer's early imitation.
Chaucer's representative works show the change and evolution of his personal style. Chaucer not only created his own unique works in the mature period, but also opened the literary peak of the Elizabethan era with this unique style. The greatest influence on Chaucer's works is the famous playwright Shakespeare. Shakespeare's works are the result of his in-depth study of Chaucer's works. Although Chaucer's works are all kinds of cultural works among contemporary literary writers, he also created his own unique style. Therefore, his works have strong British characteristics and are worthy of being the father of English poetry.
Chaucer's Artistic Style
Geoffrey Chaucer is a great founder of the history of English literature. He opened the way for English realistic works. Chaucer's artistic style was unrealistic from the beginning. There is no independent style in Chaucer's early artistic style.
Chaucer's works
Chaucer's artistic style began with the imitation of Italian and French literature. In his early work The Duchess's Book, we can see that Geoffrey Chaucer's characterization in the book is based on French chivalry and animal fables. Chaucer's artistic style at that time was still full of fantasies and hallucinations.
When Chaucer began to represent British Edward III in European countries, he was exposed to various works. Two of them had a profound influence on his literary works, namely Boccaccio and Peterak. After reading their works, he was deeply attracted by romantic fantasy literature different from France. Their works are not fictional, and the characters portrayed are very close to reality. Reading their works is like examining your own life.
Since then, Chaucer's artistic style has abandoned the style of fantasy and fable and moved towards the realistic literary road. Chaucer usually likes reading. He has been reading classical literature and new literature. In his works, people can easily find the shadows of many writers, such as Levi, Peterak, poitiers and Dante. Chaucer began to imitate their literary works, took the parts of their works that could be used for himself, and then adapted them again. It is this fusion of the essence of others that makes Chaucer's artistic style begin to have its own style characteristics. Most of his later works have realistic style, but he also mentioned the humorous features of French literature, which makes his works quite different from the general realistic style.
Chaucer's Historical Contribution
Geoffrey Chaucer is the greatest English writer in the Middle Ages. He opened up the literary road of Elizabethan times. Chaucer's historical contribution is self-evident. As the father of English poetry, Chaucer left many outstanding works in his life.
Chaucer's portrait
Trolls and Clyde, Canterbury Tales, The Duchess's Book, Hall of Fame and Trolls are all his classic works. Some of these works are early works of Geoffrey Chaucer, such as Clyde. This book is Geoffrey Chaucer's first book, from which we can see Chaucer's early style. This book combines the artistic styles of French literature and Italian literature, and looks like a mixture of Italy and France.
As Chaucer began to contact more literary works, he gradually felt his own literary style. The real work with English literary style is his The Duchess's Book. Although there are many familiar shadows in this book, it is also a unique English work created by Chaucer. This book is Chaucer's masterpiece. He combined the essence of realism and romanticism to create a unique style of English heroic couplets. It is this style that makes Geoffrey Chaucer the real father of English poetry. His heroic couplets were used in his works by later English poets.
Chaucer's historical contribution not only lies in the creation of literary works with unique English style, but also influenced later British writers to create different excellent works. Chaucer also brought Shakespeare, a great playwright, to England, making it a peak civilization in the history of English literature.
Chaucer's evaluation
Chaucer was the first person to write English poems. He made great contributions to the history of English literature. Chaucer is highly valued by British and even world writers. Because he not only opened up the literary road of Elizabethan England, but also influenced many English literary writers later.
Chaucer's portrait
No one can replace Chaucer in English literature, which is the highest evaluation of Chaucer. Shakespeare, the great English playwright, was also deeply influenced by Chaucer's works and created a series of excellent works. It was after a thorough study of Chaucer's works that Shakespeare wrote his plays with great irony and humor.
Chaucer's heroic couplets were adopted by later English poets. Chaucer's comments go without saying. It can be seen from people's inheritance of the literature and art he created that Chaucer is an admirable poet. Making Chaucer the father of English poets is also the highest praise for Chaucer. This title means that people recognize the literary style he brings.
Although Chaucer was under great pressure when he was alive. It was after Richard came to power that Chaucer fell out of favor and was deprived of his official position. During this painful period, Chaucer wrote a letter to Henry IV, "Spreading the Word", telling about his miserable situation.
From Chaucer's cemetery, we can also see how the world evaluates Chaucer. Geoffrey Chaucer was the first poet buried in the corner of Westminster Abbey in London. This shows the British people's affirmation of Geoffrey Chaucer. The founder of English poetry deserves the highest evaluation and the best courtesy.