Geoffrey Chaucer.

Author / Editor
Burrow, J. A.

Title
Geoffrey Chaucer.

Published
Claude Rawson, ed. The Cambridge Companion to English Poets (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), pp. 20-36.

Description
Introduces Chaucer's life and describes each of his major works in chronological order, identifying the French context of BD, the Italian travels and reading that influenced him later, the philosophical concerns of TC, and his self-representations in CT and elsewhere. Treats the poet as an "eiron" throughout.

Contributor
Claude Rawson, ed.

Alternative Title
The Cambridge Companion to English Poets

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism
Chaucer's Life