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| c. 1375 |
| | | The courtly poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight tells of a mysterious visitor to the round table of King Arthur | |
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| 1385 |
| | | Chaucer completes Troilus and Criseyde, his long poem about a legendary love affair in ancient Troy | |
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| c. 1387 |
| | | Chaucer begins an ambitious scheme for 100 Canterbury Tales, of which he completes only 24 by the time of his death | |
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| 1461 |
| | | Francois Villon, recently released from prison, writes his Ballad of the Ladies of Times Past | |
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| 1487 |
| | | Boiardo publishes a romantic epic, Orlando Innamorato, about Roland's love for a bewitching princess | |
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| 1516 |
| | | Ariosto, in Orlando Furioso, tells of Roland's madness when he is abandoned by the pagan princess Angelica | |
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| 1550 |
| | | Pierre de Ronsard publishes the first four books of his Odes | |
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| 1572 |
| | | Luis de Camoëns publishes The Lusiads, the poem which becomes Portugal's national epic | |
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| 1581 |
| | | Tasso, in Gerusalemme Liberata ('Jerusalem Liberated'), turns the first crusade into a romantic epic | |
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| 1590 |
| | | English poet Edmund Spenser celebrates the Protestant Elizabeth I as The Faerie Queene | |
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