Geoffrey Chaucer
- Author / Editor
- Shippey, Tom.
Geoffrey Chaucer
- Published
- Joseph Epstein, ed. Literary Genius: 25 Classic Writers Who Define English & American Literature (Philadelphia, Pa.: Paul Dry Books), 2007, pp. 8-15.
- Description
- Comments on Chaucer's life and works, focusing on his narrative timing, depth of characterization, and linguistic subtlety as means to express sympathy for human weakness. Includes three glossed passages from CT and two wood engravings by Barry Moser (portrait of Chaucer and the Tabard Inn).
- Contributor
- Epstein, Joseph. ed.
- Moser, Barry, illus.
- Alternative Title
- Literary Genius: 25 Classic Writers Who Define English & American Literature.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General.
- Chaucer's Life.