Because of this work, all of the great writers who followed, from Shakespeare to Dryden to Keats to Eliot, owe him a debt of gratitude. To a great degree, The Canterbury Tales helped make it a legitimate language to work in.
English was considered low class and vulgar. Before Chaucer’s time, even poets who lived in England wrote in Italian or Latin, which meant that poetry was only understandable to people of the wealthy, educated class. For one thing, The Canterbury Tales is recognized as the first book of poetry written in the English language. Having recently passed the six hundredth anniversary of its publication, the book is still of interest to modern students for several reasons. the uncompleted manuscript was published in 1400, the year he died. Geoffrey Chaucer began writing The Canterbury Tales sometime around 1387 A.D.
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