Lives of the Poets
- Author / Editor
- Schmidt, Michael
Lives of the Poets
- Published
- New York: Knopf, 1999.
- Physical Description
- xii, 975.
- Description
- A history of international English poetry, with recurrent attention to the history of the language, verse forms and style, political contours, and the anxieties of influence. The structure is chronological until the twentieth century, when Schmidt turns to nationality and poetic movements as devices of organization. The index lists many references to Chaucer, while pp. 30-74 concentrate on the relative importance of John Gower, William Langland, and Chaucer.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Style and Versification
- Language and Word Studies
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations