“Both Dante and Chaucer were active in affairs of their times.” (Hetherington 179) Because of their occupations and abilities to travel and meet new people, they had excellent opportunities to use their life experiences in their works.įor example, Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales general prologue talks about a group of people, whh try to find something to do during their traveling. This essay shall compare and contrast the stories of the authors.īoth Geoffrey Chaucer and Dante Alighieri wrote in the Middle Ages and were the two most famous and most celebrated writers of that period. Both Dante and Chaucer’s works have lots in common: the authors preferred to write about their journeys and describe people they met there, liked to put themselves into their works as integral parts of the plot’s development and chose the same vernacular writing style for most of their writing. Numerous writers used his style of writing after his death, and one of such followers was Geoffrey Chaucer, an English poet, famous by The Canterbury Tales. His Divine Comedy, created in 1308, impresses plenty of readers even now. Dante Alighieri is considered to be one of the most famous Italian poets. Authors from different times and cultures add something new and unforgettable to the literature world and deserve to be analyzed during the literature classes.
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