The World and Heart of Thomas Usk

Author / Editor
Medcalf, Stephen.

Title
The World and Heart of Thomas Usk

Published
A. J. Minnis, Charlotte C. Morse, and Thorlac Turville-Petre, eds. Essays on Ricardian Literature: In Honour of J. A. Burrow (Oxford: Clarendon, 1997), pp. 222-51.

Description
Summarizes Usk's life and career. While assessing the fusion of various levels of meaning in "The Testament of Love," Medcalf observes what Usk borrows from Chaucer (HF and TC) and Langland, as well as from Boethius and Anselm.
Reprinted in Brian Cummings and Gabriel Josipovici, eds. The Spirit of England: Selected Essays of Stephen Medcalf (London: Modern Humanities Research Association and Maney Publishing, 2010), pp. 131-51.

Alternative Title
Essays on Ricardian Literature: In Honour of J. A. Burrow.
Spirit of England: Selected Essays of Stephen Medcalf.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.
House of Fame.
Troilus and Criseyde.