1. Green University of Bangladesh
Presentation Topic: Chaucer poetry
Course Code: ENG 114
Course title: History of English literature
Presented by:
Emamul Haque
ID: 130120022
Green University of Bangladesh

3.  About Geoffrey Chaucer
 Geoffrey Chaucer was born in
London sometime between
1340 and 1344 to John Chaucer
and Agnes Copton. John
Chaucer was an affluent wine
merchant and deputy to the
king's butler.
 According to John Dryden,
Chaucer is the father of English
poetry.
 Chaucer remained Clerk of
Works of the Palace of
Westminster.
 Chaucer died on October 25,
1400.

4. • Chaucer selected poetry
 The Canterbury Tales.
 Troilus and Criseyde.
 Treatise on the Astrolabe.
 The Legend of Good Women.
 Parlement of Foules.
 Anelida and Arcite.
 The House of Fame.
 The Book of the Duchess.
 Roman de la Rose.
 Boece

5. The Canterbury Tales

6. His other activities
Spurious
 The Cuckoo and the
Nightingale.
 The Complaint of the
Black Knight.
 The Floure and the Leafe.
 Pierce the Ploughman's
Crede.
 Jack Upland.

7. His other activities
Tales
The Tale of Gamelyn.
Prologue and Tale of
Beryn.
The Plowman's Tale.
The Pilgrim's Tale.

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