Chaucer: as a Great English Poet
Chaucer: as a Great English Poet Chaucer is generally enthroned with the title of the father of English poetry as John Dryden gave veneration “fatherhood of English poetry” to him. But this outcome is not simply based on his historical position but because of his inherent merits and the achievements that were so positive. When we call Chaucer the father of English poetry, we mean to say as Matthew Arnold says, "With him is born our real poetry," During his times, English was not developed to the extent that one could write poetry in it. “He found English dialect and left it language”. He adapted East Midland Dialect and made it for his poetry. The seeds that he sowed through his poetry do not remain limited to poetry alone but their plants are seen in the yards of English drama and fiction as well. He was indeed the first realist, the first humorist and ironist, the first great character-painter, the first great narrative artist and the first great metrical artist in English