This important new critical biography traces in carefully considered detail what is known of Geoffrey Chaucer's personal life while exploring the fascinating relationship between the man of affairs, who made so many 'improvisations and accommodations' to ensure his own survival, and the poet. A major reexamination of England's greatest narrative poet, it is supplemented with reproductions of Chaucer portraits and other illustrations, including maps of medieval England.
| ISBN: | 9781557866653 |
| Publication date: | 10th November 1994 |
| Author: | Derek Harvard University Pearsall |
| Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell an imprint of John Wiley and Sons Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 380 pages |
| Series: | Wiley Blackwell Critical Biographies |
| Genres: |
Biography: general Literary studies: poetry and poets Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval |