Chaucer

`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.''STUDIES IN THE AGE OF CHAUCER