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1400: Geoffrey Chaucer (born 1343 ), English author, poet, philosopher, bureaucrat, courtier and diplomat Jan of Jenštejn (born 1348 ), Archbishop of Prague who was a poet, writer and composer
Pages in category "14th-century poems" The following 86 pages are in this category, out of 86 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
1375 – Barbour composes The Brus, the earliest poem in vernacular Early Scots. 1381: May 30–November – Peasants' Revolt in England. Preacher John Ball apparently cites the poem Piers Plowman (which is revised during this decade) and John Gower includes an account of the events in his Vox Clamantis.
Petrarch (1304-1374). 1323 – The name Pléiade is adopted by a group of fourteen poets (seven men and seven women) in Toulouse.; 1324: 3 May (Holy Cross Day) – The Consistori del Gay Saber, founded the previous year in Toulouse to revive and perpetuate the lyric poetry of the Old Occitan troubadors, holds its first contest.
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Geoffrey Chaucer (/ ˈ tʃ ɔː s ər / CHAW-sər; c. 1343 – 25 October 1400) was an English poet, author, and civil servant best known for The Canterbury Tales. [1] He has been called the "father of English literature", or, alternatively, the "father of English poetry". [2]
Sang Sinxay, the most famous epic poem of Laos, was written around mid sixteenth century. [6] Franciade (French) by Pierre de Ronsard (1540s–1572) Os Lusíadas by Luís de Camões (c. 1572) [7] L'Amadigi by Bernardo Tasso (1560) La Araucana by Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga (1569–1589) La Gerusalemme liberata by Torquato Tasso (1575)
The term Middle English literature refers to the literature written in the form of the English language known as Middle English, from the late 12th century until the 1470s.. During this time the Chancery Standard, a form of London-based English, became widespread and the printing press regularized the langua