Great Poets
- Author / Editor
- Ormond, Richard and Leonee.
Great Poets
- Published
- London: H. M. S. O., 1969.
- Physical Description
- 51 pp.; b&w illus.
- Description
- Reproduces portraits or busts of twenty-four English poets, from Chaucer to T. S. Eliot, held in England's National Portrait Gallery, with a very brief biography and short selection of poetry for each. The portrait of Chaucer is labeled as "By an unknown artist, after Occleve," accompanied by a paragraph about Chaucer's life, and a quotation of TC 5.1835-48. Also describes Thomas Hoccleve's portrait of Chaucer as "the only authentic image of the poet" and quotes the section of Hoccleve's "De Regimine Principum" where his portrait of Chaucer appears in the British Museum manuscript.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Life
- Troilus and Criseyde