Chaucer: Troilus and Criseyde and The Canterbury Tales
- Author / Editor
- Varnam, Laura.
Chaucer: Troilus and Criseyde and The Canterbury Tales
- Published
- Michael O'Neill, ed. The Cambridge History of English Poetry (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010), pp. 81-95.
- Description
- Varnam describes Chaucer's "legacy to English poetry as one of linguistic curiosity and a refusal of generic categorization." With TC, Chaucer "heralded a new era of narrative poetry" rich with philosophy and characterization; in CT, he "created a diversity of genre, character and language" not matched until Shakespeare.
- Alternative Title
- The Cambridge History of English Poetry.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde
- Canterbury Tales--General