Oxford Guides to Chaucer: The Shorter Poems

by Alastair J. Minnis

Book Overview

This third volume in the popular Oxford Guides to Chaucer series offers a much needed introduction to Chaucer's shorter poems. The introductory chapters on the social and cultural contexts of the shorter poems are supplemented by a guide to the genre they mostly exemplify--the love-vision form. The volume then provides in-depth, individual chapters on the Book of the Duchess, the House of Fame, the Parliament of Fowls, the Legend of Good Women, and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198111932
• ISBN13: 9780198111931
• Release Date: July 1995
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 592 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"