Multiple choice general knowledge history

who known as father of english poetry

  1. john milton

  2. geoffrey chaucer

  3. john keats

  4. none of above
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Explanation

Geoffrey Chaucer is widely regarded as the father of English poetry because he was one of the first poets to write in Middle English when Latin and French were the dominant literary languages in England. His masterpiece 'The Canterbury Tales' established English as a legitimate language for literature and influenced generations of poets.

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