Chaucer: Complaint and Narrative

‘Lively and interesting... Complaint and its interaction with its narrative context is explored across the range of Chaucer's oeuvre from the shorter poems to various Tales.' NOTES & QUERIES

Counters the view of Chaucer's complaints as exercises in a worn—out French tradition by demonstrating how his effort to fuse lyric and narrative modes led him to experiment with complaint. ‘His analyses give new perspectives on several of Chaucer's works — an intelligent, original and profitable view.'S...