Counting at Dusk (Why Poetry Matters When the Century Ends)

Author / Editor
Scarry, Elaine.

Title
Counting at Dusk (Why Poetry Matters When the Century Ends)

Published
Elaine Scarry, ed. Fins de Siècle: English Poetry in 1590, 1690, 1790, 1890, 1990 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995), pp. 1-36.

Description
Explores why the world is "newly alert to its need for poetry" at the end of each century, including comments on Chaucer's writing of CT at the end of the fourteenth.

Alternative Title
Fins de Siècle: English Poetry in 1590, 1690, 1790, 1890, 1990.

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General