The Father of English Poetry 1343-1400.  Father of English Poetry:  Wrote in Middle English not Latin or French.  Middle English is the vernacular.

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The Father of English Poetry

 Father of English Poetry:  Wrote in Middle English not Latin or French.  Middle English is the vernacular of the time.  Born into middle class…father was a wine merchant  Became a page for wealthy family, had some legal training.  Government career. Sent to Europe as the King’s ambassador.  Wrote and held a job.  Italian connection.  Style of writing.

 Father of English poetry… made English respectable  Government worker – important person, and eventually a member of Parliament  His job took precedence over his poetry  Loyal to the Crown (1374 – granted a DAILY pitcher of wine!)  Began writing The Canterbury Tales in 1387

 Written in iambic pentameter (unstressed syllable – stressed syllable x5)  Gives a snapshot of an entire country at the time in which it was written  Describes people (“pilgrims”) from EVERY station in life

 Frame Story Structure – sets up at “outer story” in the Prologue that unites each of the following 29 pilgrims’ stories o Setting? April; outside London in Southwark (55 miles away from Canterbury) at The Tabard (Inn/Tavern) o Everyone is on a pilgrimage to Canterbury to see the shrine of St. Thomas a Becket (the martyr killed in his own cathedral by the King’s knights) o Reasons for a pilgrimage? A pilgrimage is a long journey or search of great moral significance. Sometimes, it is a journey to a shrine of importance in a person's beliefs and faith.

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