Important Notes –Chaucer and his works:

Important Notes –Chaucer and his works:

·         Pilgrims in the Canterbury Tales assembled in Tabard inn.

·         The pilgrims were welcomed by jolly host Harry Baillie.

·         Chaucer employed Heroic Couplet in his prologue and Canterbury Tales.

·         Chaucer effectively used rhyme royal in Troilus and Criseyde and arranged in stanza consisting ten syllabic lines and having seven lines in each stanza.

·         Pilgrims in the Canterbury Tales visiting the shrine of Thomas-a-Becket.

·         Wife of Bath in the Canterbury Tales tells about her five marriages.

·         Chaucer’s physician in the doctor of physique was heavily depending ofastrology.

·         Spenser called Chaucer ‘the well of English undefiled’.

·         Chaucer introduced the Heroic Coupletin English verse and invented the rhyme royal.

·         Matthew Arnold criticised Chaucer forlacking high seriousness.

·         The pilgrims marched towards Canterbury in the month of April.

·         A free supper was the prize for the best story teller among the pilgrims.

·         Matthew Arnold called Chaucer, ‘the father of our splendid English poetry.’

·         Long called Chaucer’s prologue to the Canterbury Tales as the prologue to modern fiction’.

·         S D Neil remarks “had Chaucer written in prose, it is possible that his Troilus and Criseyde and not Richardson’s Pamela would be celebrated as the first English novel.