Chaucer’s Prologue to the Canterbury Tales within his vast writing career, as a social commentary of the age.

 MEG – 01: BRITISH POETRY

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1. Locate Chaucer’s Prologue to the Canterbury Tales within his vast writing career, as a social commentary of the age. 

Answer.: The age of Chaucer covers the period from 1340 to 1400. Chaucer is the true representative of his age as Pope is of the eighteenth century and Tennyson is of the Victorian era. His works breathe the political, social, economic and religious tendencies of his time. The middle of the fourteenth century was the transitional period in which Chaucer was born. The elements of Renaissance were breeding. “He stands on the threshold of the new age, but still hedged in a backward gazing world.” The fourteenth century in England was the most important of the mediaeval centuries. It covered the period of the Black Death and the Peasant’s Revolt, the Hundred Years War with France and the great economic and social changes which we associate with the decay of villeinage.

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