The First Great English Poet
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The First Great English Poet Geoffrey Chaucer is considered by manyto be first great English Poet. He lived form about 135 to 1400 and his writing were greatly influenced by the work of earlier French and Italian writers. He work a number of poems one of which is a romance about the Trojan war called trailus and cressida. He also wrote the famous Canterbury tales. This is a collectin of stories of widely diffrrent kinds, eachtold by a pilgrim on his way to cantebury to the shrine o St.Thomas Becket. The pilgrims themselves,,whose journey links the tales, are a splendid and motely collectin of people,all vivdly alive, who show us what kind of man and woman lived and worked in fortenth century. After chances,there was no great English poet. Of almost 150 years. Inmiddle of 15th century though,Sir Thomas Malory produced a masterpiece of English prose inhismorte d Arthur,gathered froma number of different sources. It was published in 1485(which was 14 years after the death of the author)and was one of the first books to be printed by William caxton at his famous pressat West Minister,London.
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