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  1. Lathrap, Mary Torrans   Olde English. Born: 1838, Died: 1895, 1 poems.
  2. Parker, Martin   Olde English. Born: 1600, Died: 1699, 1 poems.
    Birth/Death dare are circa - He was known as an English Balladeer
  3. Crichton, James   Olde English. Born: 1560, Died: 1582, 0 poems.
  4. Udall, Nicholas   Olde English. Born: 1505, Died: 1556, 1 poems.
    the Queen, his most noted patron
  5. Nanmor, Dafydd   Olde English. Born: 1440, Died: 1480, 1 poems.
  6. Lydgate, John   Olde English. Born: 1370, Died: 1450, 4 poems.
    John Lydgate, Chaucer's most prolific admirer
  7. Hoccleve, Thomas   Olde English. Born: 1368, Died: 1426, 17 poems.
    Arguably most famous for his autobiographical writings, Thomas Hoccleve 'wrote what he meant'. A Londoner, his poems contain no references no nature, and no allegory. He was a great admirer (and probable friend) of Chaucer.
  8. Chaucer, Geoffrey   Olde English. Born: 1340, Died: 1400, 60 poems.
    Geoffrey Chaucer expanded the reputation of English as a great literary language. William Shakespeare's wrote many of his plays to show a sign of Geoffrey Chaucer's comic spirit. John Dryden, a modern interpreter of The Canterbury Tales, named Chauce
  9. Gower, John   Olde English. Born: 1330, Died: 1408, 10 poems.
    Gower was routinely mentioned alongside other Middle English poets, most notably Chaucer and John Lydgate, as a founder of the English poetic tradition.
  10. Langland, William   Olde English. Born: 1330, Died: 1390, 22 poems.
    A fourteenth century British writer most remembered for his allegorical poem The Vision of William concerning Piers the Plowman
  11. Barbour, John   Olde English. Born: 1320, Died: 1395, 21 poems.
    today regarded as the father of Scottish poetry and history
  12. Rolle, Richard   Olde English. Born: 1300, Died: 1349, 3 poems.
  13. Cyfeiliog, Owain   Olde English. Born: 1130, Died: 1197, 0 poems.
  14. Wace, Robert   Olde English. Born: 1100, Died: 1174, 2 poems.
    Maistre Wace, 12th Century author of Roman de Rou. The enigmatic Jersey-born poet, who also created the legend of King Arthur's Round Table with his rhyming version of the Brut, was the central figure in the post-Conquest English 'Renaissance' but hi
  15. Caedmon,   Olde English. Born: 600, Died: 670, 19 poems.
    7th century poet. Bede translated part of one of his poems and this is the oldest known fragment of a poem that exists in English today. According to Bede, he was a monk in Whitby abbey.
  16. Forgaill, Dallan   Olde English. Died: 598, 0 poems.
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