Nayled to the wow
Tom Shippey, 7 January 1993
The Life of Geoffrey Chaucer
by Derek Pearsall.
Blackwell, 365 pp., £19.95, September 1992,1 55786 205 2 Show More
by Derek Pearsall.
Blackwell, 365 pp., £19.95, September 1992,
A Wyf ther was: Essays in Honour of Paule Mertens-Fonck
edited by Juliette Dor.
University of Liège, 300 pp., June 1992,2 87233 004 6 Show More
edited by Juliette Dor.
University of Liège, 300 pp., June 1992,
Hochon’s Arrow: The Social Imagination of 14th-Century Texts
by Paul Strohm.
Princeton, 205 pp., £27.50, November 1992,0 691 06880 1 Show More
by Paul Strohm.
Princeton, 205 pp., £27.50, November 1992,
“... only by the French, and only till he was killed in battle at Pavia. There is an irony, on which Derek Pearsall ends his book, in the extirpation of the Chaucer line around 1539 at virtually the same moment as the first printing of Chaucer’s Collected Works in 1532. But the irony had been there all the time, in the almost unbroken refusal of ... ”
