Contents introduction chapter I. Forebears and early years

CONTENTS


INTRODUCTION………………………………………..………………….…....3
CHAPTER I. FOREBEARS AND EARLY YEARS…………………………...6
1.1.Autobiography of Chaucer…………………………………………………..…9
1.2.Later life……………………………………………………………………….12

1.3. Major work: “The Canterbury Tales” …………………………………….…..15

CHAPTER II. THE 3 STAGES OF CHAUCER'S WORK ………………….17
2.1.French Period ………………………………………………………………...19
2.2.Italian Period…………………………………..….…………………….….....19
2.3.English Period ……………………………………………………………...…20
CO‏NCLUSIO‏N……………………………………………………………….….21
REFERENCES……………………………………………………………..…....25


INTRODUCTION.
Geffrey Chaucer's creativity according to the unanimous opinion of scientists achievement in English literature of the period, which is commonly called the "High or Mature Middle Ages". In the era when the remarkable classic of English literature lived and worked, the formation of a truly English culture took place. Chaucer is considered one of the founders of the English poetic language, the founder literary traditions of this country. Of course, the development process literature was complex; Chaucer couldn't help but lean on his predecessors. And since in the native culture there are examples worthy of there was practically no imitation, the poet borrowed poetics, traditions, plots from the ancient classics - the creators of the ancient time.
Chaucer's main work, The Canterbury Tales, is popular today. It is included in the study programs as English, and foreign literature. To the study of this work in different ways time, many literary scholars have addressed. That's why we can safely talk about the relevance of the "Canterbury Tales", and that's why I choose this piece for research in his term paper.
The value of the work is to study England of the XIV century through the work The Canterbray Tales and Geoffrey Chaucer's work in general. In connection with the purpose of research, I set myself the following tasks:
- to analyze the specifics of medieval society;
- to define the role and importance of Geoffrey Chaucer in English literature;
- to follow the author's writing system;
- to study the work "The Canterbury Tales"
Chaucer began his literary career under the influence of a medieval French literature which included satires, romances, fabliaux, and such contemporary poets as Deschamps, Machaut, and Froissart. Under French influence he began his translation of the Romance of the Rose, and more important, produced his first ambitious original poem, The Book of the Duchess (1369). This is an elegy on the death of Blanche, the wife of Chaucer's patron John of Gaunt, written in the form and manner of contemporary French poets, and with considerable borrowing from them. But already in this poem, as in the other dream-allegories that followed, there are distinctive marks of Chaucer's individual genius the use of the setting to intensify the dreamlike mood of the poem, the sense of immediacy in the portrait of the bereaved knight, and the characteristic flashes of psychological insight. With remarkable originality and tact, Chaucer made himself merely a well-meaning but obtuse listener and put the praise of Blanche into the mouth of her husband.
The Legend of Good Women ("Legend of Cupid's Saints") has a remarkably fresh and original prologue telling how Chaucer came to write a set of accounts of women who--whatever their other failings--were faithful in love even unto death. Chaucer left it unfinished, and it is not hard to see why. It calls for too much repetition of what is essentially the same story, and the poet admits at one point that he is fed up with writing about these melancholy jilted females. The great masterpiece of Chaucer's Italian period, however, is Troilus and Criseyde, an amazingly rich and original work in spite of the fact that it is based on a narrative poem by Boccaccio and follows the well worn conventions of courtly love.