English Literature Author:Stopford A Brooke Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. FROM CHAUCER, 1400, TO ELIZABETH, 1559- Thomas Hocdeve (Henry V.'s reign); J. Lydgate, Falls of Princes (in Henry VI.). — Sir John Fortescue's... more » prose work, and Sir T. Malory's Morte tf Arthur (Edward IV.).—Caxton prints at Westminster, 1477.—Paston Letters, 1422—1505-—Hawes' Past1me of Pleasure, 1506.—John Skel1on's poems, 1508— 1529. -Sir T. More's History of Richard 111., 1513-— Tyndale's Translation of the Bible, 1525-— Engl-sh Irayer Book, 1549-—Ascham's Toxophilus, 1545-—Poems of Wyatt and Surrey, in Tottel's Miscellany, 1557- Scottish Poetry, begins with Harbour's Bruce, 1375—7 ; James I.'s Kings Qu/tair, 1424.—T. Henryson dies, 1508. —Dunhar's 'Ihistle and Rose, 15C3.—Gawin I/ouglas dies, 1522 —Sir D. Lyndsay born, 1490 ; Satire of Three Estates, 1535 ; dies 1555. 40. The Fifteenth Century Poetry.—The last poems of Chaucer and Langland bring our story up to 1400. The hundred years that followed is the most barren in our literature. The influence of Chaucer lasted, and of the poems attributed to him, but now rejected by scholars, some certainly belong to the first half of this century. The Court of Lore, The Cuckoo and the Nightingale, The Flower and the Leaf, the Complaint of the Black Knight, stated by Shirley, Chaucer's contemporary, to be Lydgate's, Chaucer's Dream, A Goodly Ballad of Chaucer, A Praise of Women, Lcaulte vault Richesse, Prorerbes oj Chaucer? the last two stanzas of which are a separate poem attributed by Shirley to " Halsam, squiere," the Roundel, the Virelai, and Chaucer's Prophecy, are with the Romaunt of the Rose (which I cannot surrender), held by Mr. Bradshaw not to be Chaucer's. They will be found in the editions of Chaucer, and 1 Morris's Chaucer, vi. 303. some of them, especially The Flower and the Leaf and The Cuc...« less