Geoffrey Chaucer

     After reading Introduction to Geoffrey Chaucer I learned that Geoffrey Chaucer was a famous poet and prime shaper of English language. He was known as the father of English literature.He was a popular poet and admired during the Medieval England. He investigates the contrast between authority and experience. Ones would praise his worship but no one clearly understood. He origin in various sources such as French, Latin, and Italian.His work contained numerous sources such as folk tale, sermons, rhetoric textbooks and etc. He changed the English Literature with his book The Canterbury Tales which was his biggest and most imaginative collection. His poetry was informative and entertainment  mixes mirth and morality which was very successful with "sentences and solas" of literature.