Chaucer and the Golden Age

Author / Editor
Schmidt, A. V. C.

Title
Chaucer and the Golden Age

Published
Essays in Criticism 26 (1976): 99-115.

Description
The solemn tone of an unusually learned vocabulary, the skillful syntax, and the architectural strength of the ababbcbc eight-line unit combine to give Chaucer's "image of regret" in "Form Age" what Joseph Campbell calls the "force of living myth"

Chaucer Subjects
Former Age
Style and Versification.