A soldier, a civil servant, a diplomat - Geoffrey Chaucer has been busy all his life on many more fronts besides being a pioneer of the world of literature. Chaucer was the first poet to use many meters and stanza forms, and to blend the French and Italian styles of writings with English. He, for the first time in history of English literature, brought into words the contemporary English world. Canterbury Tales is set on the road between London and Canterbury. He dealt with realism and humanism extensively and produced some masterpieces like Troilus and Criseyde, Romance of the Rose and Canterbury Tales.

Chaucer is admired the most for alleviating the English consciousness from the streets into the volumes of classics. He drew his characters with such a fine pointed brush, filled them with such realistic energy and life, revealing their inner selves, that the reader could immediately identify themselves with them.

Geoffrey Chaucer and his works have been the epitome of English literature ever since 14th century, and still continue to be.