he chance to read Italian and French literature, but possibly, even to meet io, whose Decameron may have inspired the frame story of The Canterbury Tales.Р(5) The Great poet: ChaucerРThe first poet who introduced the heroic couplet? The first poet who wrote in English, the dialect of London. (Middle English)? The forerunner of British humanist literature: a humanist poet.?Father of English literature? Father of English poetryРOld English?Middle English? Modern English ? —— A historyРI. History of the English LanguageРthe 5th century AD: the arrival of three Germanic tribes : the Angles, the Saxons and the Jutes (The inhabitants of Britain : Celtic language. )?The Angles came from "Englaland" and their language was called "Englisc" - from which the words "England" and "English" are derived.