A Critical History of English Literature: In Two Volumes
- Author / Editor
- Daiches, David.
A Critical History of English Literature: In Two Volumes
- Published
- New York: Ronald, 1970.
- Physical Description
- viii, 1169 pp.
- Description
- Chapter four (pp. 89-127) treats together Chaucer, Gower, and "Piers Plowman," presenting Chaucer in his time but arguing that, as an artist, he transcends it. Introduces Chaucer's life and offers summary comments on each of his major works, concluding that "With Chaucer, the English language and English literature grew at a bound to full maturity. No other Middle English writer has his skill, his range, his complexity, his large humane outlook."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism
- Chaucer's Life