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1154 Last entry of The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle c1170 Poema Morale c1200 Orrmulum   Katherine Group   The Owl and the Nightingale   Layamon's Brut c1220 Ancrene Riwle c1250 King Horn c1260-90 First Religious Lyrics c1320 Cursor Mundi c1330-1408 John Gower c1330 MS Auchinleck (Sir Orfeo) c1340 The Harley Lyrics c1340-1400 Geoffrey Chaucer c1350 The Pricke of Conscience c1350 Wynnere and Wastoure   The Parliament of the Three Ages c1357 Mandeville's Travels c1362-93 William Langland: Piers Plowman c1368-1426 Thomas Hoccleve c1370 Alliterative Morte Arthure   Pearl- (Gawain-) Poet 1370-1429 John Lydgate c1380 The Cloud of Unknowing 1382-90 Wycliffite Translation of the Bible c1421-91 William Caxton c1423 James I: Kingis Quair 1430-1506 Robert Henryson c1450 Mystery Cycles and Morality Plays 1460-1520 William Dunbar c1469 Thomas Malory: Le Morte Darthur