Chaucer's influence is enormous, but in your question you have correctly broken it down
into two basic parts: the English language and English literature.
As in all
European countries, England had and has regional dialects, different forms of the language that
are spoken locally in different parts of the country. Like French, German, Italian, and so on,
it also has a standard form which originally was merely one of these dialects and then, for
various reasons, gained great prestige and became the variety of the language spoken throughout
the whole country, taught in schools, and used in...
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