Geoffrey Chaucer

DW followed this with two social-issue novels: So Long to Learn, 1936 (titled with a quotation from Chaucer ), a topical story about the tithe wars, and Old Father Antic, 1937, a story...

Again many poems first appeared in periodicals, from Mslexia to the Times Literary Supplement. Again there were earlier separate printings and particular commissions. An extended narrative poem, The Teacher's Tale, was commissioned for...

MB recalls being influenced at an early age by her enjoyment of Tennyson 's Idylls of the King, Wilde 's Picture of Dorian Gray, the novels of Sir Walter Scott , and Richardson

A copy of the manuscript exists in microfiche. In 1873 she wrote another play, Griselda (based on Chaucer 's The Clerk's Tale), as a vehicle for her friend Clara Dowse Rousby . It was...

HL published Canterbury Tales for the Year 1797, the first volume of the work which was to make her famous Geoffrey Chaucer.

CB began work on a new media project entitled The Hous of Rumour: A Structure Wide Open to Voices and the Elements, incorporating poetry, memoir and new media writing.

Having accepted her novel Seven Poor Men of Sydney, Peter Llewelyn Davies had wanted to publish it as her second work, to follow something else less unconventional. He got as far as advertising another...

In her general overview of the history of English literature during these centuries, she focuses especially on English poets because as she says, great poets not only give form, power and beauty to a nation's...

Her selection runs from Edward the Confessor to Samuel Daniel . (The title-page mentions Gower , Langland, and Chaucer.) For each poet she provides a short biography and a scholarly and critical preface. Her judgements...

The book's contents consisted largely of already published journalism, carefully revised for the collection. Woolf had put detailed consideration into the idea of making a structure for the book, but she ended by rejecting...

Alongside poems on national occasions, public sites, widely revered figures like Chaucer and Shakespeare , stand some deeply personal poems, like Pathway (which the Guardian reprinted on 27 September), in which the poet sees her...