Old English Poets

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Across
  1. 2. / Introduced the sonnet to English
  2. 7. / Wrote the oldest surviving English poem
  3. 8. / Popularized the version of the Sonnet used by Shakespeare
  4. 9. / Violent, aggressive innovator of blank verse
  5. 10. / Poetry genius and innovator who influenced Milton
Down
  1. 1. / Attributed as author of Piers Plowman
  2. 3. / Young, harshly critical innovative poet who wrote light verse and used onomatopoeia
  3. 4. / Greatest combined poet and playwright in history
  4. 5. / Updated the Sonnet Cycle; influence on Shakespeare
  5. 6. / Author of Canterbury Tales