Chaucer's Major Poetry

by Albert C. Baugh

1963 prentice hall edition

Genres: Poetry

616 pages, Hardcover

Published May 1, 1963

About the author

Dr. Albert Croll Baugh, College 1912; Ph.D. English, 1916; and Honorary Doctorate in 1961, Chaired the University of Pennsylvania Department of English, and received many accolades, including the Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching.

Dr. Baugh's scholarship is still much in use at the Penn Library—from his 1935 study of the history of the English language to his 1968 bibliography of Chaucer studies.

Reviews

[Jonathan · Rating 5 out of 5]

I recall with great pleasure the class on Chaucer, focusing on the Canterbury Tales, that I took over the summer of 1977. It was taught by David Riggs, who was one of my favorite professors in college. I enjoyed learning to read Chaucer in the original Middle English. Among the few passages of poetry that I ever committed firmly to memory is the opening to the Prologue. Many years later I borrowed an audio recording of the Canterbury Tales from the library and enjoyed listening to them in the car.