The Paths of Poetry: Twenty-Five Poets and Their Poems.
- Author / Editor
- Untermeyer, Louis.
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.