AGES ERA PERIOD
RESTORATION AND 18TH CENTURY
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Spenser
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John Gower
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Chaucer
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Langland
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Detailed explanation-1: -Geoffrey Chaucer has been called the “morning star of the Renaissance". Chaucer was an English writer who lived during the 14th century. He was born in the 1340s and lived until October 25, 1400.
Detailed explanation-2: -He stands head and shoulders above his contemporaries and successors. That is way he has been called the earliest of the great moderns and the morning star of the renaissance.
Detailed explanation-3: -The first occurrence of Chaucer being called “the morning star of the Renaissance” occurs in William Henry Hudson’s Outline History of English Literature, published in 1913, and is derived from the more famous appellation given to John Wycliffe that he was “the morning star of the Reformation". ( cf. p.
Detailed explanation-4: -Venus is the first celestial body to become visible in the sky at evening and is the last one to disappear from the sky at sunrise. This is why it is known as the Morning and the Evening star.