Who called Chaucer, the father of English poetry?

Chaucer symbolizes, as no other writer does, the Middle Ages. He stands in much the same relation to the life of his time as Alexander Pope does to the 18th century and Tennyson to the Victorian era. read more

According to John Dryden, Chaucer is the father of English poetry. Dryden venerates (honours) Chaucer as highly as the Greeks venerated Homer and Romans venerated Virgil. Dryden says that Chaucer is the perpetual foundation of good sense. read more

Geoffrey Chaucer is called the father of English literature because he was the first to write what became generally well-known and recognized poems and stories in the language of the common people of his time - medieval English. read more