Reviews for Oxford Guides to Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales

The average rating for Oxford Guides to Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-03-13 00:00:00 David Wehner I spent over three decades teaching "The Canterbury Tales," and for the last fifteen years, I required Cooper's Oxford Guide and Lillian Bisson's "Chaucer and the Late Medieval World" as indispensable supplements to the Riverside Chaucer. Cooper's concise surveys of all of the relevant contexts of each of the poems--manuscript traditions, sources, genre, rhetoric, form, relationship to the other poems, etc.--enrich beyond measure our understanding and appreciation of the oft-called Father of English Poetry. This is a perfect example of practical scholarship and criticism, well written, sensible, and compelling.

Review # 2 was written on 2020-11-30 00:00:00 Alena Peterson This book saved my life in my Chaucer course during Zoom University where you have to do a lot of teaching yourself!