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lecture 2. the theme: the pre – renaissance period in english literature plan: 1. the literature of the 14th century. 2. geoffrey chaucer is the founder of the english literature. 3. «the canterbury tales» is a masterpiece of geoffrey chaucer. 4. literature of the 15th century. 5. robin hood ballads. key – words and expressions : 1. ignorant 2. pilgrimage 3. predecessor 4. historical character 5. legendary character asosiy adabiyotlar 1. john peck, martin coyle. a brief history of english literature. palgrave, 2002. 2. thornley g.c. an outline of english literature. longman, 2003. 3. baqoeva m, muratova e, ochilova m., english literature. t. : 2006 qo'shimcha adabiyotlar , 1. liliana sikorska. an outline history of english literature. 2003, 529p 2. oxford companion to english literature. margaret drabble. oxford university press. 2000. 3. g.v.anikin, n.p. mixalskaya istoriya angliyskoy literaturi m.1985 y. 4. f. boynazarov jahon adabiyoti t. 2006 y. 5. sh. …

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yclif. william langland (1332-1400) was a poor priest. his parents were poor but free peasants. he denounced the rich churchmen and said that everybody was obliged to work. his name is remembered for a poem he wrote, “the visions of william concerning piers the ploughman” (piers -peter). nowadays the poem is called “piers plowman”. “piers plowman” is an allegorical poem. in it vice and virtue are spoken of as if they were human beings. truth is a young maiden, greed is an old witch. the poem was very popular in the middle ages. it begins with a vision which the poet william had on the malvern hills. in a long and complicated succession of scenes langland portrays almost every side of fourteenth-century life. in his dream the poet sees piers the ploughman, a peasant. piers tells him about the hard life of the people. he sees the corruption of wealth, …

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dward iii. his service in that household indicates that his family had sufficient social status for him to receive a courtly education. throughout the rest of his lifetime, chaucer was in some way connected with members of the royal family. in 1366 chaucer married philippa roet, a lady-in-waiting to the queen. chaucer rose socially through his marriage. in 1368 he became one of the king’s esquires, which in those days meant that he worked in the administrative department of the king’s government. one of his duties was to act as a government envoy on foreign diplomatic missions. chaucer’s diplomatic missions took him first to france and later to italy. chaucer’s poetry is generally divided into three periods. the french period. while in france geoffrey chaucer came in contact with french literature, his earliest poems were written in imitation of the french romances. he translated from french a famous allegorical poem …

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e last english writer of the middle ages and the first of the renaissance. “the canterbury tales” a woodcut from william caxton's second edition of the canterbury tales printed in 1483 “the canterbury tales”, for which chaucer’s name is best remembered, is a long poem with a general introduction (“the prologue”), the clearest picture of late medieval life existent anywhere. the framework, which serves to connect twenty-four stories, told in verse, is a pilgrimage from london to canterbury. in the prologue thirty men and women from all ranks of society pass before the readers’ eyes. chaucer draws a rapid portrait of each traveller, thus showing his character. chaucer himself and a certain harry bailly, the host (owner) of a london inn are among them. harry bailly proposes the following plan: each pilgrim was to tell two stories on the way to the shrine and two on the way back. the …

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e. the lines may or may not rhyme. iambic pentameter became a widely used meter in english poetry. chaucer’s contribution to english literature is usually explained by the following: 1. “the canterbury tales” sum up all types of stories that existed in the middle ages. 2. he managed to show different types of people that lived during his time and through these people he showed a true picture of the life of the 14th century. (the pilgrims range in rank from a knight to a poor plowman. only the very highest and lowest ranks - the nobility and the serfs - are missing.) 3. in chaucer’s age the english language was still divided by dialects, though london was rapidly making east midland into a standard language. chaucer was the creator of a new literary language. he chose to write in english, the popular language of common people, though aristocracy of …

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lecture 2. the theme: the pre – renaissance period in english literature plan: 1. the literature of the 14th century. 2. geoffrey chaucer is the founder of the english literature. 3. «the canterbury tales» is a masterpiece of geoffrey chaucer. 4. literature of the 15th century. 5. robin hood ballads. key – words and expressions : 1. ignorant 2. pilgrimage 3. predecessor 4. historical character 5. legendary character asosiy adabiyotlar 1. john peck, martin coyle. a brief history of english literature. palgrave, 2002. 2. thornley g.c. an outline of english literature. longman, 2003. 3. baqoeva m, muratova e, ochilova m., english literature. t. : 2006 qo'shimcha adabiyotlar , 1. liliana sikorska. an outline history of english literature. 2003, 529p 2. …

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