Chaucer and Langland
John M. Bowers · 2007
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"Although Geoffrey Chaucer and William Langland together dominate fourteenth-century English literature, their respective masterpieces, The Canterbury Tales and Piers Plowman, could not be more different. While Langland's poem was immediately popular and influential, it was Chaucer who stood at the head of a literary tradition within a generation of his death. John Bowers asks why and how Chaucer, not Langland, was granted this position. His study reveals the political, social, and religious factors that contributed to the formation of a literary canon in fourteenth-century England."--Jacket.
Book details
- Year
- 2007
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Editions
- 1
- Pages
- 488
- ISBN
- 9780268022020
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