{"id":8988,"date":"2015-01-09T18:33:19","date_gmt":"2015-01-09T13:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=8988"},"modified":"2015-01-09T18:33:19","modified_gmt":"2015-01-09T13:03:19","slug":"the-father-of-english-poetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=8988","title":{"rendered":"The father of English poetry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.generalknowledgetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Geoffrey-Chaucer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8989\" src=\"http:\/\/www.generalknowledgetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Geoffrey-Chaucer-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"Geoffrey-Chaucer\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nGeoffrey Chaucer , known as the Father of English literature, is widely considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages . Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343 &#8211; 25 October 1400) is ranked as one of the greatest poets of the late Middle Ages and his burial in Westminster Abbey begins the tradition of &#8216;poet&#8217;s corner&#8217;, last resting place of England&#8217;s most celebrated writers. He was admired for his philosophy as well as for his poetic talents. His best-known works are &#8216;The Canterbury Tales&#8217; and &#8216;Troilus and Criseyde&#8217;, which demonstrate his extraordinary range. Most notably, Chaucer wrote in his vernacular English, as opposed to Latin or French, and also translated many important Continental works, such as Boccacio&#8221;s &#8216;The Decameron&#8217; and Boethius&#8221;s &#8216;Consolation of Philosophy into English&#8217;. The popularity of Chaucer&#8221;s works written in the London dialect of Middle English gave rise to this dialect&#8221;s prominence and eventual status as modern English&#8221;s predecessor.<\/p>\n<p>Born: 1343, London, England<br \/>\nDied: October 25, 1400, London, England<br \/>\nNationality: Kingdom of England<br \/>\nSpouse: Philippa Roet (m. 1366-1387)<br \/>\nParents: Agnes Copton, John Chaucer<br \/>\nChildren: Thomas Chaucer, Elizabeth Chaucer, Lewis Chaucer, Agnes Chaucer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geoffrey Chaucer , known as the Father of English literature, is widely considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages . Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343 &#8211; 25 October 1400) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=8988\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8989,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[349,353,354],"tags":[348,350,351,352,355,356],"class_list":["post-8988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english-classroom-improve-your-english","category-literature","category-persons-and-biography","tag-canterbury-tales","tag-english-poetry","tag-father-of-english-poetry","tag-geoffrey-chaucer","tag-the-canterbury-tales","tag-the-father-of-english-poetry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}