Geoffrey Chaucer
- Author / Editor
- Olson, Glending.
Geoffrey Chaucer
- Published
- David Wallace, ed. The Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999), pp. 566-88
- Description
- Surveys Chaucer's life and art in light of their cultural contexts, commenting on his status as a court poet, the nature of his audience, his self-consciousness and uses of contemporary literary forms, his relations to his contemporaries, and his attitudes toward the English language.
- Alternative Title
- Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.
- Chaucer's Life.