A full-length portrayal of Chaucer's life and works and of fourteenth-century England examines the poets youth, his service to the king in France and Italy, his family life, and his late years, and demonstrates how his work is the key to his life

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YA Howard has assembled the schol arly research of Chaucer experts, giv ing readers, in one source, the best, or at least the consensus. He presents lit tle new in the way of research, although his book is filled with speculation and filling in between the lines. For this rea son, and for others, this book is a fine vehicle for students who wish to learn of Chaucer and his environment. How ard takes readers through Chaucer's life, telling them of the odd and the ev eryday. Students who wish to research Chaucerian ideas will be better served by going to the original sources, and to more current ones. For those who wish to get an overall impression, Howard's book is the answer, for he brings Chau cer to life, and causes readers to see the man. George F. Hawkins, Episcopal High School, Bellaire
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.

This exceptionally clear, comprehensive, and well-written book vividly portrays both the public context (14th-century England, Italy, and France) and the family life of the early giant of English poetry. It easily surpasses not only Marchette Chute's outdated Geoffrey Chaucer of England (1946) but also John Gardner's The Life and Times of Chaucer (1977) and Derek Brewer's Chaucer and His World (1978). Accessible to the general reader while useful to the scholar, the book offers informative interpretations of Chaucer's works and literary genius. Highly recommended. Carolyn M. Craft, Longwood Coll., Farmville, Va.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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