Oxford Handbook of Chaucer

As the ''father'' of the English literary canon, one of a very few writers to appear in every ''great books'' syllabus, Chaucer is seen as an author whose works are fundamentally timeless: an author who, like Shakespeare, exemplifies the almost magical power of poetry to appeal to each generation of readers. Every age remakes its own Chaucer, developing new understandings of how his poetry interse...