Chaucer's Contemporary
- Author / Editor
- Bennett, J. A. W.
Chaucer's Contemporary
- Published
- S. S. Hussey, ed. Piers Plowman: Critical Approaches (London: Methuen, 1969), pp. 310-24 and 352-53.
- Description
- Explores the affinities and "common sympathies" between William Langland and Chaucer, including their "Englishness," their views of religion and virtue, their shared sense of human variety, and the possibility that Chaucer may have read "Piers Plowman."
- Contributor
- Hussey, S. S., ed.
- Alternative Title
- Piers Plowman: Critical Approaches.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
- Chaucer's Life