I suppose that no-one has answered this since fifteenth-century English poetry is pretty much devoid of luminaries. read more
As poetry it is head and shoulders over Lydgate’s Troy Boke (though it will not stand comparison with, say, Chapman’s translation of Homer). Basically, English poetry had a great fourteenth century (Chaucer, the Gawain-Poet) and a spectacular late sixteenth (Spenser, Marlow, Shakespeare), but the fifteenth was a different story. read more
From Chaucer to Spenser 1400-1599. The 15th century was a barren period in English literary history. It was nearly two hundred years after Chaucer's death before any poet came whose name can be written in the same line with his. read more