UGC NET English Q74

Question

Which of the following statements about Geoffrey Chaucer are correct?
A. Chaucer's first work, The Book of the Duchess, is a dream-poem on the death in 1368 of Blanche, Duchess of Lancaster, the wife of John of Gaunt.
B. In The House of Fame, it is the first time that Dante's epic of a journey to Paradise, Purgatory, and Hell – The Divine Comedy is echoed in English.
C. The Canterbury Tales absorbs literary, historical, religious, social, and moral concerns, and transcends them all.
D. In The Legend of Good Women, cupid and venus, passion and desire, innocence and knowledge, are all invoked.
E. The Miller's Tale is an old-fashioned fable, a story of deception in war, almost similar to The Knight's Tale.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Accepted Answer

A, C, and D Only