Medieval Writers and Their Work: Middle English Literature and Its Background, 1100-1500

Author / Editor
Burrow, J. A.

Title
Medieval Writers and Their Work: Middle English Literature and Its Background, 1100-1500

Published
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982.

Description
Deals with the ideas behind Middle English literature, wirters, audiences, genres, personality versus impersonality, allegory, edification, and the attitude of later ages to the literature of medieval England.
Revised in 2008, with new material and updated notes and bibliography

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.