Who First Called Chaucer The Father Of English Poetry?
John Dryden. It was John Dryden who called Geoffrey Chaucer the ‘father of English poetry. ‘ Dryden did this in the preface of his book, Fables, Ancient and Modern, which was published in 1700. Who called Chaucer the well of English poetry? So Geoffrey Chaucer is spoken of by Spenser in the Faërie Queene, iv. …
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