Eight Facts about Geoffrey Chaucer:

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1) Edmund Spenser called "Chaucer, well of English undefiled" in his allegorical poem The Faerie Queen.


2) "Chaucer was not in any sense a poet of the people"- W.H. Hudson


3) John Dryden called Chaucer as "The Father of English poetry" in Preface to Fables Ancient and Modern (1700)


4)  Edward Albert called Chaucer "The earliest of the great moderns" in History of English Literature.


5) He is called Morning Star of Song and Morning star of Renaissance.


6) John Dryden calls him as "Here is God's plenty" in The Canterbury Tales.


7)John Livingstone Lowes "Chaucer found his native tongue a dialect and left it a language".


8) His works are divided into three periods - "The French period (upto 1370), the Italian period (1370-1385) and English (1385-1400).


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