-Considered to be the Father of English Literature
-Poet, philosopher, bureaucrat, courtier and diplomat.
-Wrote many works but most famous was The Canterbury Tales.
-Chaucer's works are sometimes grouped into first a French period, then an Italian period and finally an English period, with Chaucer being influenced by those countries' literatures in turn.
-Chaucer is known for metrical innovation, inventing the rhyme royal, and he was one of the first English poets to use the five-stress line, a decasyllabic cousin to the iambic pentameter, in his work, with only a few anonymous short works using it before him.
- Chaucer wrote in continental accentual-syllabic metre, a style which had developed since around the twelfth century as an alternative to the alliterative Anglo-Saxon metre.
"The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people."
"Time and tide wait for no man."
"The guilty think all talk is of themselves."
Quotes from Geoffrey Chaucer
