The Criticism of Chaucer in the Twentieth Century
- Author / Editor
- Brewer, D. S.
The Criticism of Chaucer in the Twentieth Century
- Published
- A. C. Cawley, ed. Chaucer's Mind and Art (New York: Barnes & Noble; Edinburgh and London: Oliver & Boyd, 1969), pp. 3-28.
- Description
- Discusses representative examples of book-length studies of Chaucer written in the twentieth century (by Kittredge, Chesterton, Lowes, Dempster, Speirs, Donaldson, Muscatine, Payne, and Robertson); surveys several "main literary topics" in Chaucer criticism of the period (love, allegory, and rhetoric); and comments on the tools, achievements, and limitations of this criticism.
- Alternative Title
- Chaucer's Mind and Art.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism