post-Chaucerianadj.n.
/ˌpəʊs(t)tʃɔːˈsɪərɪən/, U.S. /ˌpoʊs(t)ˌtʃɔˈsɛriən/, /ˌpoʊs(t)ˌtʃɔˈsɪriən/; see also Chaucerian adj. and n. Literary Criticism.
A. adj.
Occurring, developing, or happening after the lifetime of Chaucer; spec. following after or influenced by the writings of Chaucer.
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pre-Chaucerian1873
post-Chaucerian1889
1889 Mod. Lang. Notes 4 201/2 Professors Ten Brink and Skeat, with others, are inclined to regard the poem as a post-Chaucerian production.
1933 R. Tuve Seasons & Months ii. 70 One may see this Lydgatean influence in most of the poets of the ‘post-Chaucerian’ school.
1967 P. J. Bawcutt Shorter Poems of Gavin Douglas p. xxx Douglas must have been well read, not only in Chaucer and the post-Chaucerian poets of the fifteenth century, but in medieval Latin poetry.
1991 Hist. Workshop Spring 124 The poem which revived post-Chaucerian English literature, Spenser's Faerie Queene, is also appropriated to the Irish cause.
B. n.
A post-Chaucerian poet.
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post-Chaucerian1933
1933 R. Tuve Seasons & Months iii. 71 English poetry from the time of Chaucer and the post-Chaucerians to that of the eighteenth-century pastoral.
1973 College Eng. 34 1116 Chaucer and the post-Chaucerians were selected for further investigation for two reasons.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.n.1889