Although the Decameron and the Canterbury Tales have often been linked, this is the first ever major study of the two most popular medieval collections of framed narratives to examine the texts as a whole.
These study guides provide peer-reviewed articles that allow students early success in finding scholarly materials and to gain the confidence and vocabulary needed to pursue deeper research.
Our readers see the books the same way that their first readers did decades or a hundred or more years ago. Books from that period are often spoiled by imperfections that did not exist in the original.
In 1936, Auden wrote to the ghost of the long-dead Byron, to tell him about recent developments in poetry and politics. 70 years later, N.S. Thompson decided it was time somebody wrote to Auden in order to bring him up to speed with events ...