Creators: From Chaucer and Dùrer to Picasso and Disney
- Author / Editor
- Johnson, Paul.
Creators: From Chaucer and Dùrer to Picasso and Disney
- Published
- New York: HarperCollins, 2006.
- Physical Description
- 310 pp.
- Description
- Appreciative discussion of the accomplishments of individual artists, designers, musicians, and authors, emphasizing their labors and the nature of their accomplishments. Chapter 2, "Chaucer: The Man in the Fourteenth-Century Street," discusses Chaucer's life, his linguistic innovation, and the social variety of his works, characterizing him as "probably the first man, and certainly the first writer, to see the English nation as a unity."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.
- Chaucer's Life.
- Language and Word Studies.