Chaucer’s innovations paved the way for the literary language of English poetry of the fifteenth century. Chaucer’s style was praised by poets such as Hoccleve and Lydgate who continued and developed it to serve their own stylistic purposes. Lydgate, for example, elaborates the aureate style. There is also a broader tradition of aureate language, in Marian lyric and in other genres such as the chronicles of John Hardyng and in translations from Latin and French. In addition, this chapter examines aspects of fifteenth-century English and Scottish poetry which develop types of experimental ‘strange’ or ‘rough’ English, mixing aureate terms with colloquial language.
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