English Literature of the Middle Ages
- Author / Editor
- Coote, Stephen.
English Literature of the Middle Ages
- Published
- London: Penguin, 1988.
- Physical Description
- xiv, 350 pp.
- Description
- Literary history of England, from Caedmon to Malory, divided into seven chapters, although nearly half of the volume attends to Chaucer and his works. Chapter 4 (pp. 70-213) surveys Chaucer's early life and influences, the "early poems," TC, and CT, and Chapter 5 (pp. 214-29) covers "Chaucer's Friends and Followers." Chapter 6 ("Popular Romance, Ballad and Lyric") and Chapter 7 ("Middle English Prose") include discussion of appropriate works by Chaucer as well.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism