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.
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