The Age of Chaucer. Volume I of a Guide to English Literature: With an Anthology of Medieval Poems.
- Author / Editor
- Ford, Boris, ed.
The Age of Chaucer. Volume I of a Guide to English Literature: With an Anthology of Medieval Poems.
- Published
- Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin, 1954.
- Physical Description
- 491 pp.
- Series
- A Pelican Book
- Description
- Anatomizes Middle English poetry, with fourteen essays by various authors on various literary topics (one on architecture by Nikolaus Pevsner), selections from Middle English verse, brief lives of the writers, suggestions for further readings, and a comprehensive index. Includes no works by Chaucer among the selections, but provides a life and pertinent suggestions for further reading (pp. 474-75). References to Chaucer and his influence recur in the essays; three pertain to his works directly, one of them (on PardPT) reprinted from John Speirs' "Chaucer the Maker" (1951). For two essays that pertain to Chaucer originally printed here, search for The Age of Chaucer. Volume I of a Guide to English Literature under Alternative Title.
- Contributor
- Pevsner, Nikolaus.
Speirs, John.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism