Ellery Queen's Poetic Justice: 23 Stories of Crime, Mystery, and Detection by World-Famous Poets from Geoffrey Chaucer to Dylan Thomas.

Author / Editor
Queen, Ellery, ed.

Title
Ellery Queen's Poetic Justice: 23 Stories of Crime, Mystery, and Detection by World-Famous Poets from Geoffrey Chaucer to Dylan Thomas.

Published
[New York]: New American Library, 1967.

Physical Description
xvi, 300 pp.

Description
Anthologizes twenty-three short prose narratives by English and American writers, with a brief, appreciative literary biography for each, and an introductory essay on the nature of anthologies. Includes an excerpt from PardT (pp. 3-8) in Percy MacKaye's archaized prose modernization of 1904, with comments about Chaucer's life and importance, characterizing CT as the "cornerstone of poetry in the English language."

Chaucer Subjects
Pardoner and His Tale
Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations
Chaucer's Life