F. J. Furnivall's Last Fling: The Wyclif Society and Anglo-German Scholarly Relations,1882-1922
- Author / Editor
- Spencer, H. L.
F. J. Furnivall's Last Fling: The Wyclif Society and Anglo-German Scholarly Relations,1882-1922
- Published
- Review of English Studies 65, no. 272 (2014): 790 -811.
- Description
- F. J. Furnivall founded seven literary and publishing societies (including the Chaucer and New Shakespeare Societies). Furnivall describes Wyclif "as the first translator of our Bible and THE FATHER OF ENGLISH PROSE" in an attempt "to foist prose paternity onto Wyclif (in pleasing symmetry with Chaucer's fatherhood of English poetry, alleged by Matthew Arnold)."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion