Question

what are the chaucer's contribution to English literature​

Answer 1

Answer:

Hi Dude..

Good Noon..

Good Ques..

Explanation:

Chaucer is sometimes called “the father of English literature” because he was the one to start writing vernacular literature in English, instead of the more prestigious French or Latin.

In Chaucer’s time, English was seen as the vulgar language of the common people. The upper class spoke the elite languages (French and Latin), and wrote their literature in those languages. There wasn’t much written in English because only the rich could write, and they didn’t want to write in *gasp* the common language.

Until Geoffrey Chaucer.  

He, and his fellow poets, began to write vernacular literature in the language of the people. They saw the English language as distinctly, well, English, and tied with the English identity. And what is a people without a literary tradition?

Chaucer didn’t just write in English, he wrote about the English experience. His most famous work, The Canterbury Tales, follows a group of English pilgrims on a pilgrimage to Canterbury to see an English saint. The pilgrims are of every social class, with a tavern owner, a knight, a few clergymen, a few laboring class workers, a gentlewoman, and other characters of different classes. Even though none of these people would travel together in real life, Chaucer got to show their differences and similarities through the stories they tell in the vernacular English.

Chaucer paved the way for other authors writing in English about England. Works like Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queen, a fanciful “history” of England with English figures like King Arthur, were born from Chaucer’s work to make English more prestigious.

Since Chaucer, English has grown from the vulgar language of the working class to one of the most important languages in the world today. It’s certainly come a long way.

if it is helpful means just leave a thnks....