ENGL 5029: British Literature and Culture Before 1800. Published:3/26/2020 3/26/2020 . ... (Chaucer was for many years known as the “father of English poetry”), the course will also explore what it ...

In an era when French and Latin were the languages officially inscribed for poetic expression, the English of The Canterbury Tales is the English of an emerging vernacular literature. Chaucer is, as ...

He is also referred to as the father of English Literature. Although he wrote many works, he is best remembered for his unfinished frame narrative 'The Canterbury Tales'.

The influence of the so-called 'father of English literature' is tracked throughout the centuries in this 'small but special' exhibition ...