The English Chaucerians.
- Author / Editor
- Pearsall, Derek.
The English Chaucerians.
- Published
- D. S. Brewer, ed. Chaucer and Chaucerians: Critical Studies in Middle English Literature (University: University of Alabama Press; London: Nelson, 1966), pp. 201-39.
- Description
- Surveys the achievements, excellences, and limitations of English fifteenth-century "secular non-popular poetry," concentrating on works by Thomas Hoccleve, Stephen Hawes, John Skelton, and, especially, John Lydgate, along with other love allegories and translations, anonymous and by named poets. Argues that Lydgate's influence in the century was "considerably greater" than Chaucer's, but observes how and where the poets establish Chaucer's legacy by praise and imitation.
- Alternative Title
- Chaucer and Chaucerians
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations