Download or read book A Brief Hand-List of Original and Early Editions of Some of the Poetical and Prose Works of English Writers From Langland to Wither written by Grolier Club and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-12 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Brief Hand-List of Original and Early Editions of Some of the Poetical and Prose Works of English Writers From Langland to Wither: Exhibited at the Grolier Club, May 11 to 25, 1893 Years. Langland was born in t33a - later than Gower and earlier than Chaucer; but his Vision of Her: tire Plowman, which was probably written as early as r 362, marks the beginning of English poetry and places Lang land in point of time before the two greater poets of 'that period, when the English lan guage, after its battle with the Latin and the French, became not only the fixed tongue of the people, but began to be the language of society and literature. Nearly a century was yet to pass before the invention of printing, and it was not until 1550 that Langland's work was given to the world as a printed book, although there were editions of the works of both Chaucer and Gower printed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.