Geoffrey Chaucer

Author / Editor
Olson, Glending.

Title
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.