Contents introduction chapter I. Forebears and early years

CHAPTER II. The 3 stages of Geoffrey Chaucer’s work.
When he wasn't holding positions at court or serving in other open workplaces, Englishman Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343-1400) was perusing and composing. In spite of the fact that a few of the realities of his life stay obscure, much of Chaucer's verse has survived for about 700 a long time. His "Canterbury Stories" and other works demonstrated progressive for their time. Scholarly pundits and students of history have tended to segment Chaucer's scholarly career into three major periods: the French, the Italian and the English. French Period What is alluded to as Chaucer's French period kept going until 1372, concurring to the "Norton Collection of English Writing." Amid this time, Chaucer deciphered the "Roman de la Rose," a French sonnet composed amid the 1200s. He too composed his "Book of the Duchess," an elegiac lyric that shared much with modern French verse of the time but moreover withdrawn from that verse in vital ways. Chaucer's broad perusing of Latin artists such as Boethius moreover affected his possess work.⁷
Italian Period A travel to Italy in 1372 kicked off what is presently broadly considered to be Chaucer's Italian period, which endured from 1372 to 1385. The trip presented him to the works of modern Italian scholars, such as Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio. At the conclusion of this period, Chaucer composed his longest sonnet, "Troilus and Criseide," a cherish lyric that he adjusted from Boccaccio's "Il Filostrato."
English Period During the ultimate period of Chaucer's scholarly career, in some cases alluded to as the English period (1385-1400), Chaucer composed the work for which he is presently best known, "The Canterbury Stories." In this classic of English writing, Chaucer tells the stories of a bunch of different travelers on a travel. Regularly sharp and clever, "The Canterbury Stories" was more imaginative and less conventional than other modern English verse, such as the work of John Gower.