ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Lydgate’s work was in turn inspired by Giovanni Boccaccio’s De Casibus Virorum Illustrium ("Concerning the Falls of Illustrious Men") and the other significant work of exemplary literature in English: The Monk’s Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer.

Detailed explanation-2: -Chapter 1 A Renaissance man and his ‘medieval’ text William Baldwin and A Mirror for Magistrates, 1547–1563. Many scholars have approached William Baldwin’s A Mirror for Magistrates as a late medieval text, an unexpected flowering of fourteenth-and fifteenth-century literary art in the mid-Tudor age.

Detailed explanation-3: -Sackville’s “Induction, ” the most famous part of the Myrrour, describes the poet’s visit to the infernal regions. Written with Thomas Norton, Gorboduc is the earliest known English drama in blank verse.