What's Chaucer's contribution to English literature
Geoffrey Chaucer,the first great write in English, was born in London in about 1340, he is called the father of English literature by many scholars.
  Chaucer’s literary career may be devided roughly into three periods.The period of French influence, the period of Italian influence, the period of maturity.And it was the third period that Chaucer wrote his famous work--- The Canterbury Tales.
  Chaucer played an important role in the development of English literature.
  Chaucer is the father of English poetry, and he presented to us a comprehensive realistic picture of the English society of his time and created a whole gallery of vivid characters from all walks of life in his masterpiece The Canterbury Tales, it is the first time in English literature.
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  Chaucer is also considered as a great master of the English language. When Chaucer was born, French and Lantin were the most powerful languages.Lantin was used in the Church a
nd French was the language of the royal court, English, although it was used every day by the majority of the people ,was a second-class language.Chaucer realised the importance of creating literature in the vernacular, in the languate of the people. He decided to make the everyday English of south-east England and London the language of literature ,Chaucer greatly increased the prestige of English as a literary language and extended the range of its poetic vocabulary and meters.
  Besides, Chaucer introduced from France the rhymed stanzas of various types to English poetry to replace the old English alliterative verse.
  In a word, what Chauceer had done makes a big difference to English literature.

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