英诗之父乔叟在诗作中直接和间接表达了他基本的文学观。乔叟的文学思想既是他创作实践的总结和他毕生对英语诗歌发展所进行的思考,同时也深受中世纪主流文化、文学思想传统以及社会现实的影响。乔叟的文学思想涉及到文学本质、文学与生活、文学与语言、人物塑造、叙述者、悲剧以及文学的功能等许多方面。他的文学思想对英国文学理论的发展有重要意义。 Qiao Xun, the father of English poetry, expressed his basic literary views directly and indirectly in his poems. Chaucer’s literary thought is not only a summary of his creative practice and his life’s thinking on the development of English poetry, but also by the medieval mainstream culture, literary and ideological traditions and social reality. Qiao Yao’s literary thinking involves many aspects such as the nature of literature, literature and life, literature and language, characterization, narrator, tragedy and the function of literature. His literary thinking is of great significance to the development of British literary theory.