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Three Periods in Chaucer’s poetic Career
Chaucer’s poetic career is divided into three parts
1. The French Period.
2. The Italian Period.(1372- 1384)
3. The English Period (1384-1390)
The French Period
Chaucer was influenced by
French poetry. He composed a lot of love poems in his youth. It is supposed
that ABC a prayer to the Virgin is the
first of his extant poems. Roman de la Rose,
the famous French work , from this work he translated some portion. He learnt
following things from French poetry:
I – fluent simplicity,
II- complete
correspondence of words and thought
III- Constant restraint
in the expression of emotion and satire.
The Book of Duchessee ,
john of Gaunt’s wife an allegory , he wrote this in 1369 .
The
Italian Period
He used
variety and new technical innovations in this age, visited Italy . he read Dante’s Divine Comedia, petrarch’s Sonnets and Boccaccio’s
Decameron. He saw dawn of
renaissance and it influenced him to the great extent. In this period he wrote
these works:
1- The
House of Fame – a dream allegory, influenced by Dante, Diction- lofty thought
and homely language,
2- the
Parliament of Fowls, Troylus and Cryseyde -
3- the
legend of Good woman - 1385, unfinished,
planned for 19 tales.
4-
Troylus and Cryseyde- founded on
Boccaccio’s filostrato.
The
English Period
Some
Poems along with his monumental work “ Canterbury Tales”
Poems
1-
Former Age
2-
Fortune
3- Truth
4-
Gentilesse
5- Lak
of Stedfastnesse
His
master piece
Canterbury
Tales
(
check out other posts for details about Canterbury Tales.)
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