Literature in the Age of Chaucer (Hardcover)

This work presents a thorough survey of one of the most exciting and creative periods in English literature, centering around its most original and influential literary representative, Geoffrey Chaucer. In addition to detailed and sensitive treatment of Chaucer's major works, the book includes chapters on his chief contemporaries, such as John Gower, William Langland and the Gawain-poet. It also examines the often underrated contribution to the English literary tradition of his successors John Lydgate and Thomas Hoccleve, as well as the interesting and original work of the Scottish poets, Robert Henryson, William Dunbar and Gavin Douglas, who also claim Chaucer as their model.