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J. Chaucer and his role in literature

Geoffrey Chaucer ( c. 1340s – 25 October 1400) was an English poet, author, and civil servant
best known for The Canterbury Tales.[1] He has been called the "father of English literature", or,
alternatively, the "father of English poetry". He was the first writer to be buried in what has since
come to be called Poets' Corner, in Westminster Abbey.[

He is seen as crucial in legitimising the literary use of Middle English when the dominant
literary languages in England were still Anglo-Norman French and Latin. Chaucer's
contemporary Thomas Hoccleve hailed him as "the firste fyndere of our fair langage".
Almost two thousand English words are first attested to in Chaucerian manuscripts.

Chaucer's first major work was The Book of the Duchess, an elegy for Blanche of Lancaster who
died in 1368. Two other early works were Anelida and Arcite and The House of Fame. He wrote
many of his major works in a prolific period when he held the job of customs comptroller for
London (1374 to 1386). His Parlement of Foules, The Legend of Good Women, and Troilus and
Criseyde all date from this time. It is believed that he started The Canterbury Tales in the 1380s.
Chaucer also translated Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy and The Romance of the
Rose by Guillaume de Lorris (extended by Jean de Meun). Eustache Deschamps called himself a
"nettle in Chaucer's garden of poetry". In 1385, Thomas Usk made glowing mention of Chaucer,
and John Gower also lauded him.
Chaucer's Treatise on the Astrolabe describes the form and use of the astrolabe in detail and is
sometimes cited as the first example of technical writing in the English language, and it indicates
that Chaucer was versed in science in addition to his literary talents. The equatorie of the
planetis is a scientific work similar to the Treatise and sometimes ascribed to Chaucer because of
its language and handwriting, an identification which scholars no longer deem tenable.