Hello everyone, my self Asha Rathod I'm going writing about comparative analysis of chaucer, Spenser and Shakespeare as a poets this work is given by dilip barad sir ..
Let's discribe introduction about Geoffrey chaucer, Edmund Spenser and William Shakespeare..
- Geoffrey chaucer
Biography :Geoffrey Chaucer, (born- 1342/43, London, England—died October 25, 1400, London), the outstanding English poet before Shakespeare and “the first finder of our language.” His The Canterbury Tales ranks as one of the greatest poetic works in English. He also contributed importantly in the second half of the 14th century to the management of public affairs as courtier, diplomat, and civil servant. In that career he was trusted and aided by three successive kings Edward III, Richard II, and Henry IV. But it is his avocation the writing of poetry for which he is remembered.
- Edmund Spenser
Biography: Edmund Spenser, (born 1552/53, London, England—died January 13, 1599, London), English poet whose long allegorical poem The Faerie Queene is one of the greatest in the English language. It was written in what came to be called the Spenserian stanza.
Spenser was considered in his day to be the greatest of English poets, who had glorified England and its language by his long allegorical poem The Faerie Queene, just as Virgil had glorified Rome and the Latin tongue by his epic poem the Aeneid.
- William Shakespeare
Biography: William Shakespeare (26, April 1564 – 23 April 1616)was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "the Bard"). His extant works, including collaborations, consist of some 39 plays, 154 sonnets, three long narrative poems, and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright .Shakespeare remains arguably the most influential writer in the English language, and his works continue to be studied and reinterpreted.
William Shakespeare is widely regarded as one of the greatest writers in the English language. He was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, the eldest son of John Shakespeare, a prosperous glover and local dignitary, and Mary Arden, the daughter of a wealthy farmer.
- Comparative analysis of chaucer, Spenser and Shakespeare:
Geoffrey Chaucer, known popularly as the "Father of English Literature" was born in 1343 and died in 1400. His body of works—with none more famous than The Canterbury Tales—helped legitimize the use of the Middle English language at a time when most scholars dealt specifically in French and Latin.
Edmund Spenser lived two centuries later (1552–1599), and certain scholars might consider him to be the first poet of worth to emerge in England since Chaucer's death. His iconic work, The Faerie Queene, draws on Irish folklore in an epic allegorical poem which, among other things, celebrates the Tudor dynasty.
These two poets were among the most influential early poets of the English language. Spenser was an enormous fan of Chaucer, and both were great admirers of the famous Italian romantic poets. Anne Higgins refers to both of them as "ambitious urban bourgeois." However, one key difference is that Chaucer is often celebrated for his comedy and societal satire, while Spenser seems more preoccupied with the romantic and the mythic.
Shakespeare, like many other early modern dramatists, was a poet as well as a play-maker (and a performer himself, of course); one part of his practice informed the other. Ten years his elder, Edmund Spenser, was the most admired English poet of his day, ‘fame’s eldest favourite’ (Thomas Nashe) and ‘sage and serious Spenser’ (John Milton), and a rich source of interest and allusion for Christopher Marlowe, himself a ‘tragicall poet’ (Francis Meres) and ‘the Muses darling’ (George Peele). But despite these examples of dramatists and poets crossing generic boundaries, moving between the demands of poetic text and dramatic performance, we rarely study early modern drama as a way of understanding the nature and reach of Spenser’s poetry. Nor do we look to Elizabethan poetry to help us understand the language and literary ambitions of early modern drama. This Research in Action workshop grew out of the question: what do we miss by neglecting the connections, tensions, and mutual influence of these two nearly contemporary writers, and through them, of the traffic between early modern poetry and performance?
✨How can we compare Chaucer and Spenser as poets?
You could focus on….
- rhyme scheme, meter, and poetic elements
- what earlier works or authors influenced each one
- what later works or authors were influenced by each one
- individual characters they create
- difference in preferred poetic techniques like similes, metaphors, personification, catachresis, alliteration, chiasmus, etc.
- moral purpose
- religious sensibility
- use (or absence) of humor and what comic techniques each one employs
- how each one handles politics
- how each one handles gender
- how each one handles religion
- how each one’s personality comes through in a literary work.
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