Osbern Bokenham (1393 – 1463) English poet and friar Legends of Holy Women A verse collection of 10000 lines, in Middle English Suffolk dialect (Chaucerian…
George Ashby (1390 – 1475) English Civil Servant and poet. Famous political verse writer. Poems: George Asby, Complaint of a Prisoner in the Fleet 1463…
Alexander Barclay (1474 – 1552) Poet and priest, a Scotsman Works: Translation of Pierre Gringore’s Le chastaeau de labour, Published by Antonie Verard, reprinted by…
John Skelton (1460 – 1529) prominent early Tudor poet and satirist Erasmus called Skelton, “the one light and glory of British letters” Works of Mannes…
Stephen Hawes ( 1475-1525) A poet and courtier who served Henry VII Works: The Passetyme of Pleasure (1509) Allegorical poem Theme: education and pilgrimage of…
John Lydgate (1370 – 1449) A benedictine monk Works: Prose The Serpent of Division (1422) Poems The Troy Book (1412-20) Written at the behest of…
Thomas Hoccleve (1369 – 1426) contemporary of Chaucer Works Letter of Cupid 1402 A translation and adoptation of French poet Christine de Pisan’s Epistre au…
One of the less noticed and acknowledged distinctions of The Canterbury Tales is that: instead of revealing England’s divisions, it reveled in its diversity. (Dec,…
Gawain Poet/Pearl Poet The “Gawain Poet”, or less commonly the “Pearl Poet”,[1] (fl. late 14th century) is the name given to the author of Sir…
John Barbour 1316 – 1395 Scottish Poet John Barbour (c.1320 – 13 March 1395) was a Scottish poet and the first major named literary figure to…