The Epic

Author / Editor
Bloom, Harold.

Title
The Epic

Published
Philadelphia: Chelsea House, 2005.

Physical Description
xiv, 266 pp.

Description
Appreciative commentary on nineteen major works of literature, from Genesis to T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land." The section on Chaucer (pp. 69-83) focuses on critical attitudes toward his comedy, irony, and rhetoric, and assesses the "implied realization" of KnT (acceptance of suffering) and the "unconscious death drive" reflected in PardT.

Contributor
Kelly, David.

Chaucer Subjects
Knight and His Tale
Pardoner and His Tale
Style and Versification