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Who is the father of english literature


RAGHUNATH DAS 8th Mar, 2019
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G Rakesh 8th Mar, 2019

Hello.

Geoffrey Chaucer was an English poet and author. Widely considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages, he is best known for The Canterbury Tales. Chaucer is known as the "Father of English literature", and he was the first writer to be buried in Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey. He was born in London sometime between 1340 and 1344.

On October 25, 1400, English poet Geoffrey Chaucer passed away.


William Shakespeare is considered by many to be the father of modern English Literature. It is not just his popularity and influence on modern writers that allows for this title to be attributed to him but because of the massive contributions he made to the development of the English language.

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