Chaucer, Geoffrey英国文学教案.ppt

Chaucer, Geoffrey;Chaucer, Geoffrey?(1343?-1400),?one?of the greatest English poets, whose masterpiece, The Canterbury Tales, was one of the most important influences on the development of English literature. His life is known primarily through records pertaining to his career as a courtier and civil servant under the English kings Edward III and Richard II.;Significance;For the Renaissance, he was the English Homer. Edmund Spenser paid tribute to him as his master; many of the plays of William Shakespeare show thorough assimilation of Chaucers comic spirit. John Dryden, who modernized several of the Canterbury tales, called Chaucer the father of English poetry. Since the founding of the Chaucer Society in England in 1868, which led to the first reliable editions of his works, Chaucers reputation has been securely established as the English poet best loved after Shakespeare for his wisdom, humor, and humanity. ;From The Canterbury TalesBy Geoffrey Chaucer;Exercises