Geoffrey Chaucer: A New Introduction

by David John Wallace

Originally writing over 600 years ago, Geoffrey Chaucer is enjoying a global renaissance today. Why do poets, translators, and audiences from so many cultures, from the mountains of Iran to the islands of Japan, find Chaucer so inspiring? In part this is down to the character and sheer inventiveness of Chaucer's work.

At the time Chaucer's writings were not just literary adventures, but also a means of convincing the world that poetry and science,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198805063
• ISBN13: 9780198805069
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 4.9" x 6.8"