Welcome to the House of the Dead. 600 Years Dead : Chaucer's Deserved Reputation as 'The Father of English Poetry'

Author / Editor
Cooper, Helen.

Title
Welcome to the House of the Dead. 600 Years Dead : Chaucer's Deserved Reputation as 'The Father of English Poetry'

Published
Times Literary Supplement (London), Oct. 27, pp 3-4, 2000.

Description
Cooper surveys Chaucer's linguistic and poetic innovations, emphasizing that his rewritings of classical, French, and Italian models were "far from being acts of homage." Chaucer may have thought of himself as a literary heir, but he was an instinctive groundbreaker.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.