Chaucer's Poetry

Words, authority and ethics

Clíodhna Carney & Frances McCormack, editors

‘A well-produced, cleanly edited, lightly indexed, and provided with a cumulative bibliography. With its many thought-provoking readings, scholars interested in the ample range of Chaucerian interpretation will gladly welcome it to the fold', Susanna Fein, Renaissance Quarterly (Spring 2014).

‘This book is open and broad … there is something refreshing about that breadth … such an approach is a useful reminder that Chaucer’s work lends itself to many different ways of reading, and we shouldn’t insulate ourselves with just one of them … the essays are well argued and might prompt further and fuller investigations … the book is a useful reminder that Chaucer scholarship is vibrant and diverse and open to new readings of lingering points of uncertainty and anxiety in his work', Andrew Higl, Medieval Review (Spring 2014).

‘The essays in this collection shine when the sharp and sensitive eye of an expert reader is brought to bear on interpretive questions old and new … this is a strong and coherent collection … the essays in the collection have an admirable clarity, and the collection as a whole is a worthwhile contribution to the continuing and careful reading of the works of Chaucer and his contemporaries’, Susan Yager, Journal of English and Germanic Philology (2015).