The greatest poet of the Middle Ages was Geoffrey Chaucer who lived in the second half of the 14th century. From the time when the Normans came to England, the English court was greatly influenced by French culture. Chaucer spoke and wrote in French. The courtiers liked to read French romances. Chaucer was taken prisoner by the French but later he was set free and returned to England. However, after a year he traveled to France for the second time. There is a strong French influence in all Chaucer’s works. Although he wrote in English, his also translated from the French a long poem of the 13th century, The Romance of the Rose. In the second period of Chaucer’s writings, one can feel considerable Italian influence. When he met the great Italian writers Petrarch and Boccaccio, Dante, the character of Chaucer’s writing changed, because he had found in the Italian writers much new material. From Chaucer’s poems and stories written in the Italy period we can see that he was a tireless reader. Sometimes we see Chaucer himself described in his own work. Geoffrey Chaucer was a man of the world – so busy a man in the day-to-day life of his age that we are surprised by how much he found time to write.
After the Italian period follows the last period in Chaucer’s writings. It was at his time that he gained artistic independence and wrote the greatest of all his works, The Canterbury Tales. This book seemed to sum up all that the poet had learned in his life.
The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories – some gay and some serious, some tragic and some comical, some witty and some romantic. Chaucer planned to write more than a hundred stories. These stories had to be told by...
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