The First German Essay on Chaucer
- Author / Editor
- Cherchi, Paolo.
The First German Essay on Chaucer
- Published
- Chaucer Review 13 (1978): 80-85.
- Description
- Caroline Spurgeon's (1925) attribution of the first German essay on Chaucer to J. J. Eschenburg (1793) is inaccurate. Karl Friedrich Flogel published a short Chaucerian essay a decade earlier in "Geschichte der komischen Literatur" (1784-87). German transcript and English translation are included.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Bibliographies, Reports, and Reference.