The Age of Chaucer is dated from 1340 to 1400 because in 1340
Chaucer was born and in 1400 Chaucer died.
Chaucer, the first national poet of England to live through
the reigns of three English monarchs
He was born in the reign of Edward III, lived through the
reign of Richard II, and died in the reign of Henry IV.
Religious pilgrimages in large groups of pilgrims were quite
in vogue in this age.
Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales are woven through the texture of
a similar pilgrimage.
Major authors before Chaucer were Caedmon, Cynewulf, King Alfred,
Layamon, Geoffrey Monmouth, Orm and Robert Mannyng.
Major Authors of the age of Chaucer were (Poets) John Gower,
William Langland, John Barbour, (Prose writers) Wyclif, Sir John Maundville.
Major Post- Chaucerian Authors were (Poets) Thomas Occleve,
John Lydgate, King James I of Scotland, William Dunbar, Robert Henryson, Gawain
Douglas, Sir Thomas Wyatt, Earl of Surrey.(Prose writers) Reginald Pecock, Sir
John Fortescue, Sir Thomas Malory, William Caxton.
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