From Literacy to Literature: England, 1300-1400

by Christopher Cannon and Christopher Cannon

The first lessons we learn in school can stay with us all our lives, but this was nowhere more true than in the last decades of the fourteenth century when grammar-school students were not only learning to read and write, but understanding, for the first time, that their mother tongue, English, was grammatical. The efflorescence of Ricardian poetry was not a direct result of this change, but it was everywhere shaped by it. This book characterizes...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192856359
• ISBN13: 9780192856357
• Release Date: January 2022
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 314 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.8"