I quite like this, from The Canterbury Tales. By Geoffrey Chaucer. Adapted by Diana Stewart. Illustrated by Dan Hubrich. Austin, TX: Raintree Steck-Vaughn Publishers, 1991:
7: “The language of the CT may be strange, but the people Chaucer wrote about are not that different from people today. That is why his tales are still so popular. The people he writes about have the same thoughts and desires as the modern reader. They are greedy for money or love, or they just want to be happy and entertained.”
44: “Chaucer was one of the first important writers to write in English. . . .”
“Today he is often called the father of English Poetry.”
I think these are quite lovely explanations of who Chaucer and his poetry were.
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