English ancient literature stories
I am looking for books for ancient English literature stories thanks
31-35, M
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ArishMell · 70-79, M
Depends on what you class as "ancient" but perhaps the two best-known works of early English fiction are Mediaeval, and probably:
- Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, an anthology written in the late 15C, of the tales in of a story-telling competition among pilgrims entertaining each other on their way to Thomas a Becket's shrine in the titular cathedral.
Chaucer, who rose to become a high-ranking civil-servant, was extremely important in bringing forth the use of vernacular English literature, instead of the French, Italian or Latin hitherto usual, especially in formal and sacred writings.
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- Sir Thomas Mallory's Le Morte d'Arthur, a re-hash of around the same time, considerably re-hashed by later writers, of French and English legends much older than the mid-Mediaeval, knights-in-plate-armour settings often portrayed.
The characters (including "King Arthur") and tales are all fiction but even Mallory's real identity and life were rather vague until fairly recently - when evidence suggests his own was a rather lurid story itself!
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These writers were not alone though. They had several contemporaries whose names and works are now less familiar. Although these works pre-date it, the invention of printing by William Caxton, and its later development by Gutenberg, must have helped these early books and with the then-modern use of English in novels and poetry, encouraged a flowering of literature, considerably.
- Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, an anthology written in the late 15C, of the tales in of a story-telling competition among pilgrims entertaining each other on their way to Thomas a Becket's shrine in the titular cathedral.
Chaucer, who rose to become a high-ranking civil-servant, was extremely important in bringing forth the use of vernacular English literature, instead of the French, Italian or Latin hitherto usual, especially in formal and sacred writings.
...
- Sir Thomas Mallory's Le Morte d'Arthur, a re-hash of around the same time, considerably re-hashed by later writers, of French and English legends much older than the mid-Mediaeval, knights-in-plate-armour settings often portrayed.
The characters (including "King Arthur") and tales are all fiction but even Mallory's real identity and life were rather vague until fairly recently - when evidence suggests his own was a rather lurid story itself!
...
These writers were not alone though. They had several contemporaries whose names and works are now less familiar. Although these works pre-date it, the invention of printing by William Caxton, and its later development by Gutenberg, must have helped these early books and with the then-modern use of English in novels and poetry, encouraged a flowering of literature, considerably.