Geoffrey Chaucer
1343 – 1400 · United Kingdom · Literature
Made English a literary language with The Canterbury Tales.
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Who shaped Geoffrey Chaucer, and who they shaped
Inherited from1
- Dante Alighieri
1265 – 1321 · Literature, Philosophy
Chaucer imports Italian verse forms and Dantean structure into English.
Passed the work to1
- William Shakespeare
1564 – 1616 · Literature
Chaucer's characters and metre are the English inheritance Shakespeare works in.
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