Chaucer and Langland: The Antagonistic Tradition

by John M. Bowers

Although Geoffrey Chaucer and William Langland together dominate fourteenth-century English literature, their respective masterpieces, The Canterbury Tales and Piers Plowman, could not be more different. While Langland's poem was immediately popular and influential, it was Chaucer who stood at the head of a literary tradition within a generation of his death. John Bowers asks why and how Chaucer, not Langland, was granted this position...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 026802202X
• ISBN13: 9780268022020
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Length: 418 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.2"