The Paths of Poetry: Twenty-Five Poets and Their Poems.

Author / Editor
Untermeyer, Louis.

Title
The Paths of Poetry: Twenty-Five Poets and Their Poems.

Published
New York: Delacorte, 1966.

Physical Description
250 pp.; b&w illus.

Description
A series of literary portraits, each combining biography and appreciative criticism. The section on Chaucer, entitled "Founder of English Literature" (pp. 17-31), emphasizes his careers in business and diplomacy, his poetic "borrowings," and his social realism, especially in CT. Comments on each of Chaucer's major poems, with most attention given to selections from GP.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Life
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.