The Middle Ages
- Author / Editor
- Bolton, W. F., ed.
The Middle Ages
- Published
- London: Barrie & Jenkins; Sphere, 1970.
- Physical Description
- xxxvii, 413 pp.
- Series
- History of English Literature in the English Language, Volume 1.
- Description
- Comprises eight chapters by various authors surveying English literature from the Old English period through Middle English prose. The chapter pertaining to Chaucer includes four sections: 1) a brief account of Chaucer's life (pp. 159-62), by W. F. Bolton; 2) a commentary on CT by D[erek] A. Pearsall (pp. 163-94) that considers the artistic illusion of realism, dramatic approaches to the Tales, variety, contrasts, experimentation, and the validity of narrative as an art form; 3) a discussion of TC by D. S. Brewer (pp. 195-228) that reads the poem as a product of manuscript culture and focuses on love, Troilus's psychology, and the operations of Fortune; and 4) a description of the "Minor Poems and the Prose" by S. S. Hussey (pp. 229-62) that maps Chaucer career as a poet, commenting on individual works, their sequence of composition, and their sources.
- Contributor
- Pearsall, Derek A.
- Brewer, D. S.
- Hussey, S. S.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Life
- Canterbury Tales--General
- Troilus and Criseyde
- Background and General Criticism