🟤 Mathew Arnold called Geoffrey Chaucer “Father of English Poetry”.
🟤 A Prayer to Virgin A. B. C is the first poem by Chaucer.
🟤 The Clerk's Tale in The Canterbury Tales is otherwise known as Tale of Griselda.
🟤 Chaucer has been called the 'Prince of plagiarists’!
🟤 The Pre-Raphaelite poet influenced by Chaucer is William Morris. His Earthly paradise closely follows the pattern of Canterbury tales.
🟤 The Second Nun's Tale is based on The Golden Legend translated by William Caxton.
🟤 Chaucerian stanza is called Rime Royal because it was used by James I of Scotland .
🟤 Clerk’s tale is based on Boccaccio's Decameron.
🟤 For the work The Book of Duchess, Chaucer is indebted to Ovid.
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