The Age of Transition (1400-1580), Volume 2 (Barnes & Noble Digital Library): The Dramatists and Prose Writers

The period of time between Chaucer and Spenser is the subject of this 1905 survey of English and Scottish literature. It provides a clean, concise account of Chaucer and his disciples, Occleve and Lydgate, the golden age of Scottish poetry, the Spenserian vanguard, poets of the English Renaissance, and the ballads and songs of the era.