Chaucer had a successful career as a public servant, holding various positions including comptroller of customs in London and clerk of the king's works. He is best known for his masterpiece The Canterbury Tales, on which he worked from the 1380s until the late 1390s. Chaucer helped establish English as a literary language and was the first poet to be buried in Poet's Corner of Westminster Abbey, cementing his status as the father of English literature.
In this presentation, you will learn about Geoffrey Chaucer's Life & works. Geoffrey Chaucer was an English poet and author. Widely considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages, he is best known for The Canterbury Tales.
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In this presentation, you will learn about Geoffrey Chaucer's Life & works. Geoffrey Chaucer was an English poet and author. Widely considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages, he is best known for The Canterbury Tales.
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Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales" ( A Critical Evaluation) || By Dr. ...Dr. Anukriti Sharma
The Canterbury Tales is a collection of 24 stories that runs to over 17,000 lines written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer between 1387 and 1400. Chaucer's long poem follows the journey of a group of pilgrims, 31 including Chaucer himself, from the Tabard Inn in Southwark to St Thomas à Becket's shrine at Canterbury Cathedral.
Geoffrey Chaucer (/ˈtʃɔːsər/; c. 1340s – 25 October 1400) was an English poet and author. Considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages,[citation needed] he is best known for The Canterbury Tales, and is considered the "Father of English literature". He was the first writer buried in Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey.[1] Chaucer also gained fame as a philosopher and astronomer, composing the scientific A Treatise on the Astrolabe for his 10-year-old son Lewis. He maintained a career in the civil service as a bureaucrat, courtier, diplomat, and member of parliament.
The 14th century is known as Chaucer’s age
It marks the beginning of a new language and literature
It was the age of transformation from medieval age to modern times
It was essentially an era of unrest and transition
Main writers of the age: Geoffrey Chaucer, William Langland, John Wycliffe, Sir John Mandeville, John Gower
Remarkable Events that Influenced Chaucer
Natural calamities
Black Death [Plague] (A.D. 1348-49)
Age of social unrest and economic troubles. -- Labor become unsatisfied with their salary. -- Efforts were made to keep the labors under control with the help of legislation.
Burdens of taxation.
Conflict between king Richard and his subjects
Features of Chaucer’s Age with Example
Standard English Language: Proper English without influence of other languages
Example: The Canterbury Tales, Chanticleer and the Fox by Geoffrey Chaucer; Piers Plowman by William Langland etc.
Realism: Concept of reality
Example: The settings of The Canterbury Tales
Church Corruption:
Example: The religious figures in The Canterbury Tales highlights many problems of church corruptions
Presence of Humor, Satire & Irony:
Example: The Canterbury Tales reveal Chaucerian Humor in the Prologue, showed Satire through the characterization & Irony to build up a satirical portrait.
Spirit of Romance:
Example: Courtly love, Romance, Marriage & Sexual Desire are found in the theme of The Canterbury Tales
Frame Story: A literary device that joins together 2 or more large stories or frame.
Example: The Canterbury Tales is a great indication of the frame work
Growth of Nationalism:
Example: In the writings of this age the influence of love for nation are found.
This is a highlighted presentation on Elizabethan era poets, their poetry, books and dramas.
1) Shakespeare
2) Ben Jonson
3) Edmund Spenser
.
.
Email: bahloolshah.khan@gmail.com
Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales" ( A Critical Evaluation) || By Dr. ...Dr. Anukriti Sharma
The Canterbury Tales is a collection of 24 stories that runs to over 17,000 lines written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer between 1387 and 1400. Chaucer's long poem follows the journey of a group of pilgrims, 31 including Chaucer himself, from the Tabard Inn in Southwark to St Thomas à Becket's shrine at Canterbury Cathedral.
Geoffrey Chaucer (/ˈtʃɔːsər/; c. 1340s – 25 October 1400) was an English poet and author. Considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages,[citation needed] he is best known for The Canterbury Tales, and is considered the "Father of English literature". He was the first writer buried in Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey.[1] Chaucer also gained fame as a philosopher and astronomer, composing the scientific A Treatise on the Astrolabe for his 10-year-old son Lewis. He maintained a career in the civil service as a bureaucrat, courtier, diplomat, and member of parliament.
The 14th century is known as Chaucer’s age
It marks the beginning of a new language and literature
It was the age of transformation from medieval age to modern times
It was essentially an era of unrest and transition
Main writers of the age: Geoffrey Chaucer, William Langland, John Wycliffe, Sir John Mandeville, John Gower
Remarkable Events that Influenced Chaucer
Natural calamities
Black Death [Plague] (A.D. 1348-49)
Age of social unrest and economic troubles. -- Labor become unsatisfied with their salary. -- Efforts were made to keep the labors under control with the help of legislation.
Burdens of taxation.
Conflict between king Richard and his subjects
Features of Chaucer’s Age with Example
Standard English Language: Proper English without influence of other languages
Example: The Canterbury Tales, Chanticleer and the Fox by Geoffrey Chaucer; Piers Plowman by William Langland etc.
Realism: Concept of reality
Example: The settings of The Canterbury Tales
Church Corruption:
Example: The religious figures in The Canterbury Tales highlights many problems of church corruptions
Presence of Humor, Satire & Irony:
Example: The Canterbury Tales reveal Chaucerian Humor in the Prologue, showed Satire through the characterization & Irony to build up a satirical portrait.
Spirit of Romance:
Example: Courtly love, Romance, Marriage & Sexual Desire are found in the theme of The Canterbury Tales
Frame Story: A literary device that joins together 2 or more large stories or frame.
Example: The Canterbury Tales is a great indication of the frame work
Growth of Nationalism:
Example: In the writings of this age the influence of love for nation are found.
This is a highlighted presentation on Elizabethan era poets, their poetry, books and dramas.
1) Shakespeare
2) Ben Jonson
3) Edmund Spenser
.
.
Email: bahloolshah.khan@gmail.com
England during Chaucer's time
Chaucer was considered as the father of English Poetry. The important events that took place in his life time during 1348-50. The presentation shows the social, political and cultural conditions of his life , works etc
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2. His family name derives from the French
chausseur, meaning "shoemaker";
Financially secure, if not elite.
Agnes Copton, who, in 1349, inherited
properties including 24 shops in London
from her uncle, Hamo de Copton.
3. Life
Around 1366, Chaucer married Philippa
(de) Roet. She was a lady-in-waiting to
Edward III's queen.
It is uncertain how many children
Chaucer and Philippa had, but three or
four are most commonly cited.
She is presumed to have died in 1387.
4.
5. Major Works
Around this time, Chaucer is believed to
have written The Book of the Duchess
in honour of Blanche of Lancaster, the
late wife of John of Gaunt, who died in
1369.
6. Career
Since Chaucer was a public servant, his
official life is very well documented, with
nearly five hundred written items
testifying to his career. The first of the
"Chaucer Life Records" appears in 1357,
in the household accounts of Elizabeth
de Burgh, the Countess of Ulster,
when he became the noblewoman's
page through his father's connections.
7.
8. Career
In 1359, in the early stages of the
Hundred Years' War, Edward III invaded
France and Chaucer travelled with Lionel
of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence,
Elizabeth's husband, as part of the
English army. In 1360, he was captured
during the siege of Rheims. Edward paid
£ 16 for his ransom, a considerable
sum, and Chaucer was released.
9. Career
Chaucer travelled to Picardy the next
year he was married as part of a military
expedition in 1373.
On this trip, he was introduced to
medieval Italian poetry, the forms and
stories of which he would use later.
10.
11. Career
His career as a writer was appreciated came when
Edward III granted Chaucer "a gallon of wine daily for
the rest of his life" in 1374.
Chaucer obtained the very substantial job of Comptroller
of the Customs for the port of London, which he began
on 8 June 1374. He must have been suited for the role
as he continued in it for twelve years, a long time in
such a post at that time.
While still working as comptroller, Chaucer appears to
have moved to Kent, being appointed as one of the
commissioners of peace for Kent, at a time when
French invasion was a possibility. He also became a
Member of Parliament for Kent in 1386.
13. Career
His life goes
undocumented for much
of the next ten years, but
it is believed that he wrote
(or began) most of his
famous works during this
period. He is thought to
have started work on The
Canterbury Tales in the
early 1380s.
14. Career
On 12 July 1389, appointed the clerk. A sort of
foreman organising most of the king's building
projects. It may have been a difficult job, but it paid
well: two shillings a day, more than three times his
salary as a comptroller.
Chaucer was also appointed keeper of the lodge at
the King’s park in Feckenham, which was a largely
honorary appointment.
He was granted an annual pension of twenty
pounds by Richard II in 1394.
It is believed that Chaucer stopped work on the
Canterbury Tales sometime towards the end of this
decade.
15. Major Works
In 1378, Richard II sent Chaucer as an envoy
(secret dispatch) to the Visconti and to Sir
John Hawkwood in Milan.
It has been speculated that it was Hawkwood
on whom Chaucer based his character the
Knight in the Canterbury Tales.
16. Life
It is believed that Chaucer stopped work on
the Canterbury Tales sometime towards the
end of this decade.
In 1399, Chaucer's name fades from the
historical record. The last few records of his
life show his pension renewed by the new
king, and his taking of a lease on a residence
within the close of Westminster Abbey on 24
December 1399.
17. The first poet to have been buried in
Poet's Corner of Westminster Abbey.
18. Contribution
The part played by Chaucer in the development of the English
language has often been overrated.
He neither corrupted it, as used to be said, by introducing French
words which it would otherwise have avoided, nor bore any such part
in fixing it as was afterwards played by the translators of the Bible.
When he was growing up, educated society in England was still
bilingual, and the changes in vocabulary and pronunciation which took
place during his life were the natural results of a society, which had
been bilingual with a bias towards French, giving an exclusive
preference to English.
Chaucer's service to the English language lies in his decisive success
having made it impossible for any later English poet to attain fame, by
writing alternatively in Latin and French.
The claim which should be made for him is that, at least as regards
poetry, he proved that English was "sufficient."