Robert Henryson (1425 – 1500) Works: Aesop’s Fables (Usually entitled The Morell fabillis of Esope the Phrygian) The Testament of Cresseid A follow on to…
James I of Scotland (1394 -1437) Was a Stuart King, and a poet. He was sent to France in 1406 and captured by the English…
Henry Bradshaw (1450 – 1513) Wrote a Latin Treatise: De antiquitate et magnificentia Urbis Cestricie An Other Balade to Saynt Werburge, a life of a…
Thomas Norton (1433 – 1513) Alchemist Best known for his work: Ordinall of Alchemy (1477)
George Ripley (1415 – 1490) Alchemist and travelled worldwide. Returned England in 1477. Wrote The Compound of Alchymy or the 12 Gates leading to the…
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…