The Lives of Geoffrey Chaucer

Author / Editor
Cannon, Christopher.

Title
The Lives of Geoffrey Chaucer

Published
Seth Lerer, ed. The Yale Companion to Chaucer (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2006, pp. 31-54.

Description
Cannon observes parallels between the "forms of life Chaucer made in his poems" and "what can be reconstructed from his own life from the public record." Suggests that both the textual lives and Chaucer's biography derive "in part from social circumstances" that "made living unusually available to representation in texts."

Alternative Title
The Yale Companion to Chaucer.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Life.