Chaucer as an English Writer

Author / Editor
Smith, D. Vance.

Title
Chaucer as an English Writer

Published
Seth Lerer, ed. The Yale Companion to Chaucer (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2006), pp. 87-121.

Description
Smith traces various threads of Chaucer's relationships with English poetic tradition: GP and Langland's "Piers Plowman"; Th and native romance; echoes of Sir " Orfeo"; alliterative verse in Chaucer; and the complex concerns of native tradition, interrelations, incest, and mercantilism in MLPT.

Alternative Title
The Yale Companion to Chaucer.

Chaucer Subjects
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.
Tale of Sir Thopas.
Style and Versification.
Man of Law and His Tale.