In this key anthology Derek Pearsall offers a radically new approach to those teaching and studying English writing from Geoffrey Chaucer to the early work of Edmund Spenser.
About the Author
Derek Pearsall is the Gurney Professor of English at Harvard University and was Professor and Co-Director of the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of York, 1965-85. His numerous publications include John Lydgate (1970), Old English and Middle English Poetry (1977), The Canterbury Tales: A Critical Study (1985), An Annotated Critical Bibliography of Langland (1990) and The Life of Geoffrey Chaucer (1992).
Features
Provides first-hand understanding of two centuries of literary culture.
Gives representation to all kinds of writing that is of 'literary' interest.
Offers a transgression of the 'great divide' of medieval and Renaissance, and ignores conventional periodization.
