1.

Geoffrey Chaucer is considered one of the first great English

pouets. He is the author of such works as The Parlement of
Foules, Troilus and Criseyde, and The Canterbury Tales.
Humorous and profound, his writings show him to be an acute
observer of his time with a deft command of many literary
genres.(janrs)
2. John Gower : He is remembered primarily for three major
works, the Mirour de l'Omme, Vox Clamantis, and Confessio
Amantis, three long pouems written in French, Latin, and
English respectively, which are united by common moral and
political themes.
3. John Lydgate: His most famous works were his longer and
more moralistic Troy Book (1412–20), a 30,000 line
translation of the Latin prose narrative by Guido delle
Colonne, Historia destructionis Troiae, the Siege of Thebes
which was translated from a French prose redaction of the
Roman de Thebes and the Fall of Princes.
4. Thomas Hoccleve: His major works include the popular
Regiment of Princes, written circa 1410–1411 (5,464 lines),
and the Series (about 3,800 lines plus prose) written in 1419–
1421, announcing and demonstrating the author's fitness to
return to writing poetry.
5. Thomas Malory, in full Sir Thomas Malory, (flourished c.
1470), English writer whose identity remains uncertain but
whose name is famous as that of the author of Le Morte
Darthur, the first prose account in English of the rise and fall
of the legendary king Arthur and the fellowship of the Round
Table.
6. William Caxton: William was the first Englishman to learn to
use a printing press. The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye
was his first printed book, and the first book printed
anywhere in English. It was produced in 1473 on the
Continent, in either Bruges or Ghent.