PROLOGUE TO CANTERBURY TALES-2

1.       The true import of the Clerk’s Tale in the Canterbury Tales is “that man must learn to endure adversity with courage and understanding.

2.       In chaucer’s time the Peasant Revolt resulted in the end of serfdom.

3.       The two French writers influenced Chaucer in his early literary career was De Lorries and De Maung

4.       The Canterbury Tales  is believed to have been taken from Boccaccio’s Decameron

5.       The poem by Chaucer to be the first attempt in English to use the Heroic Couplet is The Legend of Good Women.

6.       In Prologue to Canterbury Tales Chaucer employed the Heroic Couplet.

7.       Chaucer’s physician in the Doctor of Phsique was heavily dependent upon Astrology.

8.       Chaucer has been criticized for presenting about courts and cultivated classes and neglects the suffering of the poor.

9.       Chaucer has been called as The Morning star of the Renaissance

10.   Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales is a story of Twenty –nine pilgrims

11.   Arnold criticizes Chaucer for lacking in high seriousness.

12.   Long called the Prologue to the Canterbury Tales, the prologue to modern fiction because of its Realism.

13.   In Canterbury Tales, 120 stories planned, but 20 tales completed (4 fragment).

14.   The best among the tales by all pilgrims in the Canterbury tales is selected based on meaningful and funny.

15.   Chaucer introduced felicity in English.

16.   Longest tale-the knights Tale

17.   A satire on unequal marriages is found in the Merchant’s Tale of January and May.

18.   The lines are about 17,000 in verse.

19.   Chaucer has been called the "Prince of Plagiarists".
20. Chaucer was born and bred In London.
21. "Chaucer was not in any sense a poet of the people" said Hudson.
22. Who called Chaucer as "The earliest of the great moderns" and was also "The morning star of the Renaissance"? Albert.
23. Chaucer introduced "The Heroic Couplet into English Verse.
24. Chaucer introduced "The Rhyme Royal",
25. Dryden called Chaucer "The father of English Poetry".
26. Matthew Arnold described chaucer as "with Chaucer is born our real poetry".
27. Chaucer found his native tongue a dialect and left it a language" said Lowes.
28."Chaucer is the earliest of the great moderns" said Mathew Arnold.
29. If Chaucer is the Father of English poetry, he is the Grandfather of the English Novel"-G. K. Chesterton.
30.Dryden said about Chaucer's characters--- "Here is God's plenty".
31. Three pilgrims are Knighthood.
32. Eight pilgrims are ecclesiastical.
33. Three  pilgrims are women.
34. Harry Bailey is the Host.
35. Bath is the name of the town to which she belonged.
36. Chaucer's Prose work is Treatise on the Astrolabe
37. Occleve in The Governail of Princess wrote a famous poem mourning the death of Chaucer.
38. Chaucer was indebted for his sources Virgil, Dante and Ovid.
39. Chaucer lived the reigns of Edward III, Richard II and Henry IV.
40. Chaucer and Langland died in the same year.
41. Chaucer is the first poet to have been buried in poet's corner of Westminister Abbey.

NET QUESTIONS SO FAR….

1.       Chaucer on the death of Blanche, wife of john of Gaunt has written the poem the book of Duchess

2.       The Canterbury tales remain unfinished at the time of its author’s death.

3.       Prose tale- The Parson’s tale

4.       Chaucer focuses on in the depiction of the Wife of Bath in the Canterbury Tales is Experience.

5.       Chaucer’s contemporary was John Gower.

6.       The tradition of Beast Fable is used in The Nun’s Priest’s Tale