Lives of the Poets: The Story of One Thousand Years of English and American Poetry.
- Author / Editor
- Untermeyer, Louis.
Lives of the Poets: The Story of One Thousand Years of English and American Poetry.
- Published
- New York: Simon and Schuster, 1959.
- Physical Description
- x, 757 pp.
- Description
- Surveys major British and American writers from Chaucer to Dylan Thomas. Praises Chaucer for his lively characterizations and his "variety and vitality" of narration, with particular attention to CT, but including commentary on the poet's life and major works, interspersed with brief illustrative passages in modern translation. It "might be said," Untermeyer tells us, "that people did not exist in English literature before Chaucer."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism