The Shorter Poems
- Author / Editor
- Minnis, A. J.,with V. J. Scattergood and J. J. Smith.
The Shorter Poems
- Published
- Oxford:
- New York: Clarendon;
- Oxford University Press, 1995.
- Physical Description
- xiii, 578 pp.
- Series
- Oxford Guides to Chaucer.
- Description
- Describes critical approaches to Chaucer's poetry (except CT and TC) and the crucial issues they have disclosed.
- Prefatory chapters by Minnis assess the social and cultural contexts of poetry in the late fourteenth century and the formal and thematic issues of the love vision and courtly love.
- Subsequent chapters on BD, HF, PF, and LGW (also by Minnis) summarize critical opinion on date, style and rhetoric, structure, sources, genre, and interpretive themes in the respective works.
- In a chapter on ABC, Chaucer's complaints, his lyrics, and his begging poems, Scattergood considers questions of canonicity and literary tradition, as well as interpretive approaches.
- The volume includes an appendix, by Smith, on Chaucer's language, including spelling, pronunciation, prosody, vocabulary, and verbal play.
- Contributor
- Scattergood, V. J.
- Smith, J. J.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.
- Language and Word Studies.
- Book of the Duchess.
- House of Fame.
- Parliament of Fowls.
- Legend of Good Women.
- Lyrics and Short Poems.