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The History of Literature
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Chaucer's Creativity Needed an Outlet
Chaucer was responding to the rise of the Italian vernacular. He takes some of the Italian innovations and adapts them to invent his own poetic forms. Chaucer is the first person in English to write in what was to become Iambic pentameter, the tensilebble five stress line.
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