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15th century (literary figures pt2)
chaucer
main works - the caterbury tales
prologue to the canterbury tales - masterpiece work- landmark of history of literature
a collection of 24 stories that runs to over 17000 lines in middle english
greatest contribution to english literature - popularized the english vernacular in mainstream literature
The tales were used to point an ironic af critical portrait of the english society and particularly the church
the tales are presented as a story telling contest by a group of pilgrims as they travel together from london to canterbury to visit the shrine of SAINT THOMAS BECKET AT CATERBURY CATHEDRAL
other works
legends of a good woman
the boke of the duchess
the romance of the roses
the house of fame
troylus gryseyde
the parliament of fouls
chaucer's poetry
not a poet of people - a court poet who wrote for cultured readers and refined poetry
did not include political events
frank pleasure of good things of life - undertones of his poem
inspired by italian humanism
fresh out of door atmosphere of his poetry
adopts french method of regular metre and end rimes.
Thomas Occeleve ( 1386- 1481)
an english poet and a civil servant
main works
la mala reglade
against poverty
letter of cupid
de regimine principium
john lydgate `
leading poet of the fifteenth century
most voluminous poet - left behind a poetry of 14000 lines
london lick penny - a masterpiece creation
poetic output is prodigious - - amounting at a conservative account to 145000 lines
established and explored every chaucerian genre
main works
the stories of thebes
the fall of princes
troy book
the temple of glass
the pilgrimage of the life of the man
robert henryson (1425- 1500)
a poet who flourished in scotland
a distinct voice in the notheren renaissance at a time when culture was a cusp between medieval and renaissance
mainly consist of narrative works - highly inventive in their story techniques
generally achieved an uncanny balance of humor and high seriousness
complex worldview - questioned the church
one of the finest in scots language - a subtle rhetorician
works
testament of gressied
orpheus and eurydice
robene and makyne
john skelton or shelton
an english poet
born in diss nortfolk
works
garlande skelton
the tennyage of elynour rumynge
the bowge of court
magnificence
the bondage of courth
the book of colin court
why not come ye not to court
william dumbar
contained a variety of subs, moods, and meters
wrote many devout religious works and noble court pieces
also produced comic pieces
main works
grotdyn targe
the thrissil and the rais
dance of the seven deadly sins
the tua marrit wemen and the wedo - the thai married womena and the widow
the lament for the makers
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