Multiple choice general knowledge

Who is known as the father of English poetry?

  1. Geoffrey Chaucer

  2. John Milton

  3. John Keats

  4. None of these
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Geoffrey Chaucer is universally recognized as the father of English poetry. His masterpiece 'The Canterbury Tales' legitimized Middle English as a literary language when most serious writing was in Latin or French. Chaucer's work in the late 14th century paved the way for the English literary tradition.

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