The Age of Chaucer Author:Boris Ford (Editor) The first volume of the Pelican Guide to English Literature covers the period from Chaucer to Spenser. It includes two general surveys of the literature of the period, one on the poetry and the other on prose; an account of the social context of literature at that time; and then a series of essays dealing in detail with individual writers and wo... more »rks. This volume also contains an appendix with biographies and bibliographies. And, finally, it includes a specially edited anthology of medieval texts that are otherwise virtually inaccessible to the general reader.« less