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He was a poet who helped legitimize vernacular languages.

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his big impact on the world was canturbary tales

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He established English as a language worth writing in.

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he's known as the father of english prose. he pretty much introduced iambic pentameter. he wrote in frame story. his characters had distinct accounts. he wrote The Canterbury Tales.

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