The Literary 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Novelists, Playwrights, and Poets of All Time
- Author / Editor
- Burt, Daniel S.
The Literary 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Novelists, Playwrights, and Poets of All Time
- Published
- New York: Checkmark Books, 2001.
- Physical Description
- xv, 400 pp.
- Description
- An international ranking which summarizes the lives and works of 100 writers. Chaucer is listed as number five (behind Shakespeare, Dante, Homer, and Tolstoy), and credited with a "fundamental redefinition of the possibility of poetic expression."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Bibliographies, Reports, and Reference
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion