Geoffrey Chaucer
- Author / Editor
- Norton-Smith, John.
Geoffrey Chaucer
- Published
- London and Boston: Routledge and Kegan Paul,1974.
- Physical Description
- xii, 274 pp.
- Series
- Medieval Authors.
- Description
- Studies Chaucer's poetic achievement in major and minor works with recurrent attention to relative chronology, the development of Chaucer's art, sources and analogues, and treatment of genres. Focuses on BD; Ven, Pity, and Mars as complaints; HF; LGW (especially LGWP); CT (structure and genres, narrative technique, KnT, MilT, fables, ManT, and ParsT); TC; and Scog and Buk as envoys. Includes an appendix titled "Moderatio, Moderation and Measure" (pp. 226-60) that addresses the concept of moderation in classical and medieval writers such as Boethius, Macrobius, Alain de Lille, and Jean de Meun, observing Chaucerian parallels. The volume includes a select bibliography and an index.
- Alternative Title
- "Moderatio, Moderation and Measure."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism