Geoffrey Chaucer

Born: 1343 (London, England)

Died: 25 October, 1400

Period: The Middle English Period (1066 – 1500)

Occupation : Author, Poet, Philosopher, Bureaucrat, Diplomat

Ä Father of English Literature

Ä The First great modernist

Ä Father of English Language

Ä First Humorist in English Literature

Ä Father of English Modern Poetry

Ä The first great English story-teller

 

Poems:

The Book of the Duchess, The House of Fame, The Legend of Good Women, The Canterbury Tales

Famous Quotations:

1.	“Time and tide wait for no man”
2.	“People can die of mere imagination.”
3.	“The life so short , the craft so long to learn”
4.	“Love is blind.”
5.	“Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.”
6.	“There’s never new fashion but it’s old.”
7.	“The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.”
8.	“He was as fresh as is the month of May.”
9.	“And she was fair as is the rose in May.”
10.	“By nature, men love newfangledness.”
11.	“The guilty think all talk is of themselves.”
12.	“We know little of things for which we pray.”
13.	“First he wrought, and afterward he taught.”
14.	“All good things must come to an end.”
15.	“Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.”
16.	“Death is the end of every worldly pain.”
17.	“Patience is a conquering virtue.”