l         The father of English poetry refers to Geoffrey Chaucer whos masterpiece The Canterbury Tales ranks as one of the greatest poetic works in English literature.

l         Chaucer made a great contribution to English poetry by indtroducing from France the rhymed stanzas of various types to English poetry to replace the Old English alliterative verse.

l         It was he who used for the first time in English the rhymed couplet of iambic pentameter which was later called the “heroic couplet”.

l         Chaucer was the first to write in the current English language. Though drawing influence from French, Italian and Latin models, he did much in making the dialect of London the foundation for modern English language.

l         In his works Chaucer developed his characterization to a higher artistic level by presenting characters with both typical qualities and individual despositions. That is why Hohn Dryden called him the Father of English Poetry.