Geoffrey Chaucer / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bloom, Harold.

Series:

Bloom's classic critical views

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400--Criticism and interpretation.

Chaucer, Geoffrey.

Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

xiii, 416 pages ; 25 cm.

Other Title:

Bloom's classic critical views : Geoffrey Chaucer

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloom's Literary Criticism, [2008]

Summary:

Fourteenth-century author, poet, and civil servant Geoffrey Chaucer has delighted readers through the ages with his colorful tales filled with humanity, grace, and strength. He is best known for The Canterbury Tales, a vibrant account of life in England during his own day. This volume features essays from the fourteenth to the early twentieth centuries that present a historical look at Chaucer's abiding literary influence.

Contents:

Biography xv

The Fourteenth Century 3

Thomas Usk (1387) 5

John Gower (1390) 5

The Fifteenth Century 7

John Lydgate (1400) 9

John Lydgate (1410) 10

John Walton "Translator's Preface" (1410) 10

Thomas Hoccleve (1412) 11

John Shirley "Introduction" (1450) 13

Robert Henryson (1475) 14

William Caxton "Epilogue" (1478) 15

William Caxton "Epilogue" (1483) 17

William Caxton "Prohemye" (1484) 17

The Sixteenth Century 21

William Dunbar (1503) 23

John Skelton "Phillip Sparrowe" (1508) 23

Gavin Douglas "Translator's Prologue" (1513) 27

Sir Thomas Wyatt (1540) 29

Henry VIII (1542-43) 29

Roger Ascham (1545) 30

Roger Ascham (1552) 31

Roger Ascham (1570) 31

John Foxe "A Protestation to the Whole Church of England" (1570) 31

George Gascoigne "Certain Notes of Instruction" (1575) 34

Edmund Spenser (1579) 35

Sir Philip Sidney (1581) 36

William Webbe "A Discourse of English Poetrie" (1586) 36

Thomas Nashe (1589) 38

Richard Puttenham (1589) 38

Robert Greene (1592) 39

Thomas Nashe (1592) 44

Edmund Spenser (1590-96) 45

Thomas Speght (1598) 46

Edmund Spenser "The Mutabilitie Cantos" (1599) 49

The Seventeenth Century 51

Edward Foulis "Prefatory Verse" (1635) 53

Samuel Pepys (1663-64) 53

Sir John Denham (1668) 54

Joseph Addison (1694) 54

The Eighteenth Century 57

John Dryden "Preface" (1700) 59

Alexander Pope (1711) 71

John Hughes (1715) 71

Daniel Defoe (1718) 72

Elizabeth Cooper (1737) 72

George Ogle "Letters to a Friend" (1739) 73

Samuel Johnson (1755) 74

Thomas Gray (1760) 76

Thomas Warton (1778-81) 80

Joseph Warton (1756-82) 106

The Nineteenth Century 109

William Godwin (1803-04) 111

William Blake (1809) 130

George Crabbe (1812) 140

William Hazlitt "Troilus and Cressida" (1817) 147

William Hazlitt "On Chaucer and Spenser" (1818) 150

William Wordsworth "Sonnet XXIII: Edward VI" (1822) 163

George Gordon, Lord Byron (1830) 163

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1837) 164

Elizabeth Barrett Browning "Mrs. Browning on Chaucer" (1842) 164

James Russell Lowell (1846) 171

Leigh Hunt (1848) 189

Henry David Thoreau "Friday" (1849) 189

Leigh Hunt (1855) 197

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1856) 209

Walter Savage Landor "To Chaucer" (1863) 210

Frederick Denison Maurice "On Books" (1865) 211

Francis James Child "Elision of Final Vowels" (1869) 212

James Russell Lowell "Chaucer" (1870) 213

William Minto "Geoffrey Chaucer" (1874) 239

Felix Lindner "The Alliteration in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales" (1876) 265

John Ruskin "Letter 61" (1876) 271

Adolphus William Ward "Characteristics of Chaucer and His Poetry" (1879) 272

Matthew Arnold (1880) 302

Gerard Manley Hopkins "Letter to Robert Bridges" (1880) 307

Algernon Charles Swinburne "Short Notes on English Poets" (1880) 308

Gerard Manley Hopkins (1881) 312

Algernon Charles Swinburne "Chaucer Lacks Sublimity" (1886) 312

George Dawson "Chaucer" (1887) 313

William Morris "Feudal England" (1888) 322

Henry Morley (1890) 323

Bernhard Ten Brink "Prelude to Reformation and Renaissance" (1893) 336

H. Simon "Chaucer a Wicliffite" (1868-94) 345

John Churton Collins (1895) 358

W.P. Ker "The Poetry of Chaucer" (1895) 359

Frank Jewett Mather "Introduction" (1899) 371

The Twentieth Century 381

George Saintsbury (1901) 383

Peter Borghesi (1903) 385

Sir Walter Raleigh "Lecture on Chaucer" (1926) 400.

Notes:

A selection of important older literary criticism on Geoffrey Chaucer.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0791095622

9780791095621

OCLC:

104891376