The New Pelican Guide to English Literature, Volume 1, Part 1: Medieval Literature: Chaucer and the Alliterative Tradition
- Author / Editor
- Ford, Boris, ed.
The New Pelican Guide to English Literature, Volume 1, Part 1: Medieval Literature: Chaucer and the Alliterative Tradition
- Published
- Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin, 1982.
- Physical Description
- 645 pp.
- Description
- Capacious anatomy of Middle English literature, with a variety of essays by individual authors; a selection of lyrics, narrative poems, and dramas; suggestions for further readings, and comprehensive index. The anthology includes no works by Chaucer, but selections for further readings are included (pp. 620-21), and six essays pertain to Chaucer, some of which appeared originally in the predecessor to this volume, "The Age of Chaucer" (London: Penguin, 1954), also edited by Boris Ford. For three newly published essays, search for Medieval Literature: Chaucer and the Alliterative Tradition under Alternative Title. A reprint (slightly adjusted) of the suggestions for further reading (including Chaucer), by Barry Windeatt, was also published in Boris Ford, ed. A Guide for Readers: To the New Pelican Guide to English Literature (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1984), pp. 28-30.
- Contributor
- Windeatt, Barry.
- Alternative Title
- Medieval Literature: Chaucer and the Alliterative Tradition.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism
Bibliographies, Reports, and Research