Poets and God : Chaucer, Shakespeare, Herbert, Milton, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake

Author / Editor
Edwards, David L.

Title
Poets and God : Chaucer, Shakespeare, Herbert, Milton, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake

Published
London : Darton, Longman, and Todd, 2005.

Physical Description
xv, 256 pp.

Description
Appreciative criticism of seven major poets, aware of academic theory (formalist, psychoanalytic, feminist) but addressed to a nonacademic audience. Chapter 1, "Chaucer" (pp. 1-33), considers Chaucer's characterization, moral tolerance, comedy, tragedy, and Christian humanism.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.