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Chaucer begins an ambitious scheme for 100 canterbury tales, of wich he completes only 24by the time of his death.
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The courtly poem of a mysterious visitor to the round table of king Arthur.
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A narrator who calls himself Will, and whose name may de Langlnd, begins the epic poem of Piers Plowman.
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Advocates paring down arguments to their essentials, an approach later known as Ockham´s Razor.
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Know as the subtle Doctor in medieval times, later provides humanists with the name Dunsman or dunce.
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Taking shape in Iceland, derives from earlier sources in Norway, Britain and Burgundy.
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the first great work of Germanic literature, mingles the legends of Scandinavia with the experience in England of Angles and Saxons.
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In is monastery at Jarrow, completes his history of the English church and people.
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His long poem about a legendary love affair in ancient Troy.
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In gaol somewhere in England, compiles Morte dÁrthur an English account of the French tales of King Arthur.
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More take the Northern Renaissance in the direction of Christian humanism.
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Book of common prayer, is publisher with text by Thomas Cranmer.
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Are born in the same year, with Marlowe the older by to months.
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New testament are published in Welsh, to be followed by the complete Bible in 1588.
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The 18 year old William Shakespeare marries Anne Hathaway in Stratford upon avon.
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Introduces the swaggering blank verse of Elizabethan and Jacobean drama.
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Celebrates the potestant Elizabeth I as the Faerie Queene
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Sonnets written ten years previously, are published.
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Of the look introduces a delicate vein of mock heroic in English poetry.
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With is detailed realism, can be seen as the first English novel.
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Clarissa begins the correspondence that grows into the longest novel in the English Language.
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Publishes is magisterial dictionary of the English language.
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Publishes is firts collection.
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Publishes the first novel, the Voyage Out.
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Collaborate in a volume of satirical poems, partingtime hall.
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The man with night sweats deals openly with AIDS
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Publishes Birdsong, set partly in the trenches of world War I.