杰弗里·乔叟

Geoffrey Chaucer is a foundational poet in the history of English literature. Publicly available information about his life is limited, and he is usually categorized under foreign literature. His representative work, The Canterbury Tales, is framed around a group of pilgrims who tell stories to one another along their journey, bringing together diverse genres such as chivalric romance, religious allegory, and earthy comic tales. The characters are vivid, and the language is humorous and observant. This framed narrative and colloquial expression present the varied face of medieval English society while revealing the author's tolerant irony toward human weaknesses. Chaucer's writing has had a profound influence on the language and narrative traditions of later English poetry, and he is often regarded as one of the important sources of English literature.