o
Sir Gawain and The Green
Knight was not published until 1839.
o
The Norman spoke Norman
French. The Norman French of England is called Anglo Norman.
o
William the conqueror had
made London the capital of England and it was not until 1362 Parliament opened
instead of French.
o
Dr. Johnson’s Dictionary got
published in 1755.
o
Layamon’s Brut (1200),
a work in Old English heroic style, this based on French Roman De Brut by Wace,
dedicated to Eleanor of Aquitaine.
o
Latin History Regum
Britannine by Geoffrey of Monmouth.
o
The Owl and the Nightingale
(13th Century), a debate between two birds, a wise old and a
pleasure loving Nightingale, dusty wisdom and appealing song.
o
Julian Norwich (1343-1413)
and Margery Kempe who met with each other were finest spiritual writer before
George Herbert.
o
John Mandeville wrote
‘The Travel’ claims to be his own experience of January to Holy land,
thrice visited by Chaucer’s wife of Bath, twice visited by St. Godrice and once
visited by Margery Kempe.
o
Piers Plowman is a
dream poem in the alliterative style, opens on the Malvern Hilss on
Worcestshire, by William Langland. New in his work is Gothic Existentialism and
dizzy secular. In atmosphere, not in convention or setting, it parallels. Dostoevsky’s
Brothers Karamazov (1880). Its scheme is like Bunnyan Burton’s
Pilgrim Progress (1684), but sweep like that of Pound’s Cantos (1917-59)
theological.
o
The book of the Duchess is
based on Guillaum de Merchants.
o
The House of Fame is
a three part vision in which the dreaming poet finds himself in a temple of
Venus, its glass walls engraved with the story of Dido and Aeneas.
o
The Parliament of Fowls, is
a dream ending in Puzzle. He has been reading Cicero’s Scipio’s Dream, in which
African explains how the immortal soul can attain the havens only by working on
common good.
o
Chaucer’s last work, The
Canterbury Tells opens with ‘When the April with his shoures soote.’
Eliot began his lament for civilization, The Waste Land, with ‘April
is the cruelest month’. The inner Keeper proposes tale-telling game to pass
time on the way to the two-day journey to the shrine of St. Thomas Becket of Canterbury
killed by agents of Henry II in 1170 at the altar of his cathedral.
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John Lydgate (1370-1449),
a mark his book Troy Book was written for Henry V, Fall of Prince for
Humphrey, and The Pilgrimage of the Life of man for the Earl of Salisbury.
o
29 pilgrims were there
mentioned in the Prologue.
o
The oldest prose narrative
still familiar in English Le Morte De Arthur (1470) by Sir Thomas Marloy. He
wrote the book while he was in Jail Finished in1469 and got printed by Caxton
in 1485.
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Tennyson’s The Lady of Shallot was based on
this Le Morte D Arthur.
o
Bruce of John Barbour was
the first Scottish literature and had writtens in 14000 octosyllabics.
o
Sir Richard Holland’s Boke
of the Howlat, Kingis Quair (1424)
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Robert Henryson’s Fables
are his great achievement but the Testament of Cressied, a sequel to
Chaucer’s Troilus. His Testament has a very medieval divinity and morality.
Parted from Troilus, Cresseid took became a whore and was afflicted with
leprosy.
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William Dunbar’s Lament
for the Markaris (makers, poets).
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Gavin Douglas produced the
first version of Virgil’s Aenied in any variety of English.
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