Origins; a 14th-century childhood; a page at court; beginning a career; at the court of Edward III; the unknown years; Chaucer and Italy; London, flower of cities all; rape and rapine; towards the inner life; among the muses in Kent; and pilgrims were they all; forth, pilgrim, forth.
Brewer brings to his task a full scholarly knowledge of the sources
of Chaucerian biography...[with] a subtle understanding of
Chaucer's social and cultural setting... Of obvious value to
students reading Chaucer and to all who read him for pleasure; more
advanced scholars will also find in it much to provoke thought and
advance understanding.
*THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT*
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