Caxton and Chaucer

Author / Editor
Blake, N. F.

Title
Caxton and Chaucer

Published
N. F. Blake. William Caxton and English Literary Culture. (London and Rio Grande: Hambledown Press, 1991), pp. 149-65.

Description
Argues that Caxton's two editions of CT were prompted by patrons; that the revision of the text from the first to the second edition was a "haphazard affair"; and that Caxton's published remarks on Chaucer are conventional and economically motivated, not reflections of aesthetic appreciation.

Alternative Title
William Caxton and English Literary Culture.

Chaucer Subjects
Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations.
Canterbury Tales--General.