Written City: A Literary Guide to Canterbury
- Author / Editor
- Brown, Peter, Stuart Hutchinson, and Michael Irwin.
Written City: A Literary Guide to Canterbury
- Published
- Canterbury: Yorick Books, 1990.
- Physical Description
- 2d ed. Originally published in 1986.
- 94 pp.
- Description
- Contains sixteen short, illustrated chapters, thematically arranged and based on upwards of fifty authors from Bede to Virginia Woolf who wrote about Canterbury. "'The Holy Blisful Martyr'" covers Erasmus, Stanley, Tennyson, and T. S. Elliot, while "To Be a Pilgrim" includes Chaucer, Froissart, Kempe, and Lee.
- The received literary image of the city has four main features: the home of the English Church; the location of Becket's martyrdom; the destination of Chaucer's pilgrims; and a place of great beauty. Concludes with directions for various walks and tours.
- Index of writers and places.
- Contributor
- Hutchinson, Stuart.
- Irwin, Michael.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General.