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DESCRIPTION OF FAMOUS 25 WRITER & POET

S.I 01/// NAME GEOFFRREY CHAUCER (1340-1400)


PERIOD Middle English Period (1066-1500)
( age of chaucer)
TITLE Father of modern English poem.
NOTABLE WORK Canterbury Tales
(based on a journey of pilgrims; contain 17,000 lines)
MAJOR WORKS 1) Canterbury Tales.
2) Troilus and Criseyde
3) The House of Fame.
4) The parliament of Fouls
5) Nun Priest’s Tale.
6) The legend of good women.

INFORMATION:
 Also a Bureaucrat, Politician, Philosopher.
 He was 1st who wrote poem in pure English.
 Also called “Morning Star of Renaissance”
N.B: আধুনিক বাাংলা কনবতার জিক – মাইককল মধুসূদি দত্ত ।

S.I. 02/// NAME JOHN WYCLIFFE (1331-1384)


PERIOD Middle English Period (1066-1500)
( age of chaucer)
TITLE Father of English Prose
1st Prose writer (if Alfred the great absence)
NOTABLE WORK Translated the Bible into English for 1st time
TRANSLATION OF BIBLE:
 Into German by Martin Luther
 Into bangla, hindi, urissha, osomia and arbi by William Carey .
NOTA BENE: The holy Quran was first partially translated into Bengali by M.
Amir Uddin Basonia. Later completely by Vai Giris chondro sen.
Marmaduke Pickthall translated the holy Quran into English at first time.

S.I. 03/// NAME CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE(1564-1593)


PERIOD The Renaissance (1500-1660)
(Elizabethan period)
TITLE Father of English Drama/ Tragedy
NOTABLE WORK Started Blank verse in drama
MAJOR WORKS 1. Doctor Faustus
2. The Jew of Malta
3. Tambeurlaine the Great
4. Edward (II)
5. The Massacre of Paris
6. The Passionate Shepherd to His Love (lyrics)
7. Hero and Leander (lyrics)

S.I. 04/// NAME EDMUND SPENSER


PERIOD The Renaissance (1500-1660)
(Elizabethan period)
TITLE The (poet/prince) of poets
Second Father of English poetry
NOTABLE WORK Faerie Queen (based on queen elizabeth’s
praise)
Started “Spenserian Sonnet”
MAJOR WORKS 1. The Shepherds Calendar
2. The Ruins of Time
3. Amoretti (Collection of 89 sonnets)
4. Astrophel (An elegy on Sir Philip Sidney’s
death)

(বাাংলা সাহিত্যের কহবদদদ দদদ হির্ত্লন্দ


ম ু গুণ )

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