Feature essay

Chaucer and the growth of vernacular literature, c.1350–c.1500

by Douglas Gray

  • Looking back in admiration
  • Chaucer's achievement
  • Chaucer's contemporaries
  • Imitators and successors

References

See also

  • Geoffrey Chaucer (c.1340–1400)
  • Thomas Hoccleve (c.1367–1426)
  • John Gower (d. 1408)
  • John Lydgate (c.1370–1449/50?)
  • William Caxton (1415x24–1492)
  • Thomas Usk (c.1354–1388)
  • Gawain Poet (fl. c.1375–1400)
  • William Langland (c.1325–c.1390)
  • Sir John Clanvow (c.1341–1391)
  • Henry Scogan (c.1361–1407)
  • Walter Hilton (c.1343–1396)
  • Julian of Norwich (1342–c.1416)
  • John Trevisa (b. c.1342, d. in or before 1402)
  • Sir Thomas Malory (1415x18–1471)
  • John Skelton (c.1460–1529)
  • James I (1394–1437)
  • Robert Henryson (d. c.1490)
  • Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599)
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