Literature is a vital record of what men have seen in life, what they have experienced of it, what they have thought and felt about those aspects of it.
Fundamentally an expression of life through the medium of language, literature accordingly needs to be systematically studied.
English literature, the body of written works produced in the English language by inhabitants of the British Isles (including Ireland) from the 7th century to the present day.
Geoffrey Chaucer (/ˈtʃɔːsər/; c. 1340s – 25 October 1400) was an English poet, author, and civil servant best known for The Canterbury Tales.
He has been called the "father of English literature", or, alternatively, the "father of English poetry".