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THE LITERATURE OF THE 14th CENTURY
The protest against the Catholic Church and the growth of national feeling during the first years of the war found an echo in literature. There appeared poor priests who wandered from one village to another and talked to the people. They protested not only against rich bishops but also against churchmen who were ignorant and could not teach the people anything.
Wiliam Langland (1332–1400). One such poor priest was the poet William Langland. His parents were poor but free peasants. He renounced 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".
The content is as follows. On a fine May day, the poet William went to the Malvem Hills. After a time he fell asleep in the open. Piers the Ploughman is a peasant who appears in the dream of the poet. piers tells him about the hard life of the people. It is the peasants alone who work and keep the monks and the lords in comfort, and the monks think they do quite enough by praying for the peasants.
Langland's attacks on the evils of the Church are the most outspoken of hid time. The poem helped the people to concentrate their minds on the necessity to fight for their rights. Before the Peasants' Revolt of 1381, the poem was used to formulate proclamations which easily spread among the people.
John Wyclif (1320–1384). John Wyclif was also a poor English priest. He started to write much later than Langland. He was a student at Oxford, later he was employed as counsel for the Crown in a debate about papal claims. The was sent on a mission to Bruges (Flanders) in 1374. He challenged everything that set the Pope of Rome above the English.


Lecture 6
The Theme: GEOFFREY CHAUCER
The Plan

1. 
   His Life and work.
   
2. 
   The Canterbury tales:
   
   1. 
      the Prologue;
      
   2. 
      Prologue to the tale of the Canon’s Yeoman;
      
   3. 
      The Tale of the Canon’s Yeoman;
      
   4. 
      Second part of the tale of the Canon’s Yeoman;
      
   5. 
      The Pardoner’s tale;
      
   6. 
      Chauer’s Contribution to literature.
      

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