Poems Without Endings
- Author / Editor
- Burrow, John.
Poems Without Endings
- Published
- Studies in the Age of Chaucer 13 (1991): 17-37.
- Description
- Disagrees with modern critical arguments that CkT, SqT, HF, and LGW are intentionally open-ended. Surveys the textual history and continuations of these poems to show that recent opinions probably result from post-Romantic "taste for the fragmentary" and "modern suspicion of 'closure'."
- Contributor
- Burrow, J. A.
- Alternative Title
- The Biennial Chaucer Lecture. The New Chaucer Society Seventh International Congress, August 6-11, 1990. The University of Kent, Canterbury.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.