Geoffrey Chaucer

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...

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.

MD 's website features a series of poems indignantly addressed to William Langland , author of Piers Plowman, of behalf of the new, unacknowledged poor. The New Vision of Piers Plowless sets the scene:...

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...

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

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...

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...