On Reading Chesterton's 'Chaucer'

Author / Editor
McCabe, John.

Title
On Reading Chesterton's 'Chaucer'

Published
Renascence 49:1 (1996): 79-87.

Description
G. K. Chesterton's "Chaucer" makes the "spaciousness" and capacity of Chaucer's writings available to twentieth-century readers. Chesterton associated Chaucer's sanity and vitality with Aquinas, who shared with Chaucer medieval orthodox Christian views on sin, freedom, and joy.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.