LITERATURE QUESTIONS
EARLY BRITISH LITERATURE
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Old English Period
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Anglo-Norman Period
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Middle English Period
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Renaissance Period
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Neoclassic Period
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Detailed explanation-1: -Chaucer wrote during the final decades of the fourteenth century; hence, his language belongs to the later Middle English period. An important feature of the division between the Middle and the Early Modern periods was the emergence of a standard written variety of English.
Detailed explanation-2: -Period: The period between 1343 and 1450 is known as the age of Chaucer. The age of Chaucer is the first significant period in the Literary history of England. It marks the beginning of a new era, new language and new literature.
Detailed explanation-3: -’Middle English’ – a period of roughly 300 years from around 1150 CE to around 1450 – is difficult to identify because it is a time of transition between two eras that each have stronger definition: Old English and Modern English.