Feature essay
Chaucer and the growth of vernacular literature, c.1350c.1500
by
Douglas Gray
Looking back in admiration
Chaucer's achievement
Chaucer's contemporaries
Imitators and successors
References
See also
Geoffrey Chaucer (
c.
13401400)
Thomas Hoccleve (
c.
13671426)
John Gower (
d.
1408)
John Lydgate (
c.
13701449/50?)
William Caxton (1415
x
241492)
Thomas Usk (
c.
13541388)
Gawain Poet (
fl.
c.
13751400)
William Langland (
c.
1325
c.
1390)
Sir John Clanvow (
c.
13411391)
Henry Scogan (
c.
13611407)
Walter Hilton (
c.
13431396)
Julian of Norwich (1342
c.
1416)
John Trevisa (
b.
c.
1342,
d.
in or before 1402)
Sir Thomas Malory (1415
x
181471)
John Skelton (
c.
14601529)
James I (13941437)
Robert Henryson (
d.
c.
1490)
Edmund Spenser (1552?1599)
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