President's Address: Devonshire Authors and Their Works (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Our next period takes us down to the introduction of printing into England and practically includes the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Except in a very few instances the literature of the county during this long period received no important additions, and the number of recorded writers is remarkably small. The terrible wars with France, and the troubles with Scotland, at home the civil Wars of the Roses, the Peasant Revolt, with the repeated pestilences and general misery, may to a certain extent account for this; and yet the literature of the fourteenth century was enriched with the works of Chaucer and Gower, Wycliffe and Langland, and in the fifteenth the printing press was introduced into England.

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