English Literature: A Portrait Gallery.

Author / Editor
Warner, Oliver.

Title
English Literature: A Portrait Gallery.

Published
London: Chatto & Windus, 1964.

Physical Description
205 pp.

Description
Reproduces in black and white the London National Portrait Gallery panel portrait of Chaucer (p. 2), preceded by a brief comment on Chaucer's life, with reference to William Dunbar's praise of him, mention of the TC frontispiece portrait (Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 61), and the claim that the "basis of the panel illustration" is the illustration of Chaucer that accompanies Thomas Hoccleve "Regement of Princes" (British Library, MS Harley 4866, f. 88r).

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Life