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Mention the impact of the Renaissance in the field of English literature.
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Solution
The most significant impact of the Renaissance was the use of local languages instead of Latin. England produced a number of writers, poets, and dramatists, of repute. Geoffrey Chaucer's “Father of English Poetry’, “The Canterbury Tales’, is his outstanding work. ‘Utopia’ written by Thomas More about an ideal island in America. Famous writers were Francis Bacon, William Shakespeare, Ben Johnson, and Marlowe. ‘Paradise Lost’ is an immortal work of Milton. Edmund Spencer wrote the poem ‘Faerie Queene”.
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