The New Pelican Guide to English Literature, Volume 1, Part 1: Medieval Literature: Chaucer and the Alliterative Tradition

Author / Editor
Ford, Boris, ed.

Title
The New Pelican Guide to English Literature, Volume 1, Part 1: Medieval Literature: Chaucer and the Alliterative Tradition

Published
Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin, 1982.

Physical Description
645 pp.

Description
Capacious anatomy of Middle English literature, with a variety of essays by individual authors; a selection of lyrics, narrative, poems, and dramas; suggestions for further readings, and comprehensive index. The selection includes no works by Chaucer, but pertinent selections for further readings are included (pp. 620-21), and six essays pertain to Chaucer, some of which appeared originally in the predecessor to this volume, "The Age of Chaucer" (London: Penguin, 1954), also edited by Boris Ford. For three newly published essays, search for Medieval Literature: Chaucer and the Alliterative Tradition under Alternative Title.

Alternative Title
Medieval Literature: Chaucer and the Alliterative Tradition.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.