Geoffrey Chaucer

CC 's busiest literary decade was the 1930s, years after she stopped writing novels. She kept reviewing, and began a new career as a broadcaster. She co-edited two anthologies with Daniel George : A National...

SB 's first-drafted novel, Dream of Fair to Middling Women, remained unpublished until after his death. Its allusive title (making fun of Tennyson 's poem A Dream of Fair Women, which itself is...

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...

LR published A Trojan Ending, her novel about Cressida, the Greek heroine of Chaucer , Robert Henryson , and Shakespeare .

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...