Chaucer's Fame in England

"Recent attention to the nature and history of Chaucer's reception makes Boswell and Holton's compilation a particularly valuable scholarly tool. Its considerable expansion of C. F. E. Spurgeon's Five Hundred Years of Chaucer Criticism and Allusion will enable Chaucerians to deepen their understanding of how, when, and in what ways Chaucer and his works were regarded during the STC years; it will also enable scholars to identify conveniently who first cited particular allusions." —Mark Allen, University of Texas, San Antonio