Biography and poem of geoffrey chaucer

 Biography of Geoffrey Chaucer ;

                                                                     Geoffrey Chaucer known as the Father of English literature, is widely considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages and was the first poet to have been buried in Poet's Corner of Westminster Abbey. While he achieved fame during his lifetime as an author, philosopher, alchemist and astronomer, composing a scientific treatise on the astrolabe for his ten year-old son Lewis, Chaucer also maintained an active career in the civil service as a bureaucrat, courtier and diplomat. Among his many works, which include The Book of the Duchess, the House of Fame, the Legend of Good Women and Troilus and Criseyde, he is best known today for The Canterbury Tales. Chaucer is a crucial figure in developing the legitimacy of the vernacular, Middle English, at a time when the dominant literary languages in England were French and Latin.

Here we read the poem THE PLOWMAN  written by Geoffrey chaucer in middle english ;

                                 That hadde ylad of dong ful many a father

                                  A trewe swynkere and good he,

                                  Lyvynge in pees and parfit charitee

                                 God loved he best, with all his hoole herte

                                 At alle tymes, though him gamed or smerte

                                 And thanne his neighebore right as hymselve

                                He wolde thresshe, and therto dyke and delve,

                                For cristes sake, for every poure wight,

                                Whithouten hire, if it lay in his myght.

                                His tithes payde he ful faire and wel,

                                Bothe of his propre swynk and his catel.

                                In tabard he rood upon a mere