Imaginative Literature I: From Homer to Shakespeare.
- Author / Editor
- Adler, Mortimer Jerome.
Imaginative Literature I: From Homer to Shakespeare.
- Published
- Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica, 1961.
- Physical Description
- viii, 238 pp.
- Description
- Includes introductions to seven authors and works of western literature, keyed to texts in translation or modernization available in the "Great Books of the Western World" series. The "Sixth Reading" here (pp. 139-66) pertains to Chaucer and CT, treating GP, aspects of the links between tales, individual tales, characterization, verse, sources, and narrative variety. Designed for self-teaching, each reading concludes with a series of questions; answers are collected at the end of the volume.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General