Chaucer's Prescience

Author / Editor
Fisher, John H.

Title
Chaucer's Prescience

Published
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 5 (1983): 3-15.

Description
Noting increasing sophistication of Chaucer criticism in the twentieth century, Fisher moves beyond historical criticism toward reader-response theories and the thesis that Chaucer is indeed prescient, a poet for all times as in ClT.

Alternative Title
Presidential Address. The New Chaucer Society Third International Congress, 1982.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.
Clerk and His Tale.