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From the inception of OE epics written in alliterative verse down the Norman Conquest ,the aftermath of which- alliterative verse got sidetracked by Octosyllabic and down through the troves of Chaucer , who set the bar of English Literature so high that we had to wait for more than a century until it was Spenser who dared to lay the bricks on which later generation will build on ........