The name “the father of English poetry” was given to the greatest poet born in London about 1340 and the one who did much in making the dialect of London (Midland dialect the language of the court, the learned and the well-to do) the foundation for modern English language.（）

A.Shakespeare

B.Spenser

C.Philip Sidney

D.Chaucer

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