'England's Olde Ennius': Geoffrey Chaucer

Author / Editor
Pask, Kevin.

Title
'England's Olde Ennius': Geoffrey Chaucer

Published
Kevin Pask. The Emergence of the Author: Scripting the Life ofthe Poet in Early Modern England. Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture, no. 12 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), pp. 9-52.

Description
Traces the process by which Chaucer's biography developed through Bale, Leland, Spenser, Speght, Thynne, Dryden, Urry,and Johnson. Topics include laureation, Chaucer in print, nationalistic and humanistic impulses, and Chaucer as a symbol of cultural exchange.

Alternative Title
Emergence of the Author: Scripting the Life of the Poet in Early Modern England.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Life.