Fourteenth-Century English Poetry: Contexts and Readings

Author / Editor
Salter, Elizabeth.

Title
Fourteenth-Century English Poetry: Contexts and Readings

Published
Oxford: Clarendon, 1983.

Description
Six essays on literary, social, and historical contexts. The two final essays analyze Chaucer's use of Boccaccio's "Teseida" to explore Chaucer's methods and poetic-philosophical development.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.
Sources, Analogues and Literary Relations.