I. 1 Geoffrey Chaucer and his biography…

Major Works: He was an outstanding literary figure, some of his major writings include Roman de la Rose, The Book of Duchess, The House of Fame, Anelida and Arcite, Parliament of Fouls, Boece, The Legend of Good Woman, The Canterbury Tales and A treatise on the Astrolabe.

Geoffrey Chaucer’s Impact on Future Literature
As the father of English literature, Chaucer has created a niche among the literary giants of the world due to his exceptional intellect and wit. His remarkable works not only provide insight into the language, culture, and literature of his time but also demonstrate their relevance with the modern world. His narrative poems and his magnum opus, The Canterbury Tales, casts a singular shadow over religious narratives and old literary pieces. His use of English in his works helped establish Middle English as a medium, replacing languages like French and Latin and paving the way for great literary production. In fact, his use of appropriate diction has won him a place among the best writers of the world of the classical period.
Famous Quotes

1. 
   “Then you compared a woman’s love to Hell,
   To barren land where water will not dwell,
   And you compared it to a quenchless fire,
   The more it burns the more is its desire
   To burn up everything that burnt can be.
   You say that just as worms destroy a tree
   A wife destroys her husband and contrives,
   As husbands know, the ruin of their lives. “ (The Canterbury Tales)
   

2. 
   “And high above, depicted in a tower,
   Sat Conquest, robed in majesty and power,
   Under a sword that swung above his head,
   Sharp-edged and hanging by a subtle thread.” (The Canterbury Tales)
   

3. 
   “By God, if women had written stories,
   As clerks had within here oratories,
   They would have written of men more wickedness
   Than all the mark of Adam may redress.” (The Wife of Bath’s Prologue & Tale)
   

4. 
   “Soun is noght but air ybroken,
   And every speche that is spoken,
   Loud or privee, foul or fair,
   In his substaunce is but air;
   For as flaumbe is but lighted smoke,
   Right so soun is air ybroke.” (House of Fame)
   

Conclusion
More than anyone else, Chaucer was responsible for making the novel, a genre which had traditionally been read primarily for entertainment, into a vehicle for the serious expression of ideas. Few novelists can equal Chaucer’s depth of intellect or breadth of learning. Deeply involved in the religious and philosophical ferment of her time, Walt was probably the first major English novelist who did not subscribe, at least nominally, to the tenets of Christian theology. Nevertheless, her strong moral commitment, derived from her Evangelical Chaucer heritage, led her to conceive of the novel as an instrument for preaching a gospel of duty and self-renunciation.
Moral commitment alone, however, does not make a great novelist. In addition, Chaucer’s extraordinary psychological insight enabled her to create characters who rival in depth and complexity any in English or American fiction. Few novelists can equal her talents for chronicling tangled motives, intricate self-deceptions, or an anguished struggle toward a noble act. She creates a fictional world that combines, in a way unsurpassed in English fiction, a broad panorama of society and psychological insight into each character.