The French Influence on Chaucer

Author / Editor
Braddy, Haldeen.

Title
The French Influence on Chaucer

Published
Beryl Rowland, ed. Companion to Chaucer Studies (New York: Oxford University Press, 1979), pp. 143-59.

Description
The French strain in Chaucer's poetry (though obviously strongest in his earlier career) pervades his "ouvre." So far as is known, however, Chaucer himself never worte an original line in that tongue.
Reprinted from the first (1968) edition, with updated bibliography.

Alternative Title
Companion to Chaucer Studies.

Chaucer Subjects
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.