"Must we quote all these good people who have nothing to say? . . . dozens of translators, importing the poverties of French poetry, rhyming chroniclers, most commonplace of men; spinners and spinsters of didactic poems who pile up verses on the training of falcons, on heraldry, on chemistry, . . . invent the same dream over again for the hundredth time, and get themselves taught universal history by the goddess Sapience. . . . It is the scholastic phase of poetry."—Taine.
Poets of the Fifteenth Century.
John Lydgate (1370-1440). See biographical note, page [283].
Thomas Occleve (1365-1450). "De Regimine Principum"; short poems.
Robert Henryson (1425-1480). See biographical note, page [283].
William Dunbar (1450-1513). See biographical note, page [283].
Gawain Douglas (1474-1522). See biographical note, page [284].
Stephen Hawes ( -1530), "The Pastime of Pleasure"; "Graunde Amour and la Belle Pucel."
John Skelton (1460-1529). See biographical note, page [272].