Chaucer in the Eighteenth Century The Father of English Poetry

David Hopkins, Emeritus Professor of English Literature and Senior Research Fellow, University of Bristol,Tom Mason, Research Fellow, University of Bristol

David Hopkins read Classics and English at Cambridge and wrote his PhD (on 'Dryden's Translations from Ovid') at the University of Leicester. He taught in the English Department at the University of Bristol from 1977, eventually becoming a Professor (now Emeritus) of English Literature. Most of his
published work has been concerned with English poetry and literary criticism of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and with the relations between English poetry and the Greek and Roman Classics. He is the author of books on Milton and Dryden, and co-editor of Dryden's poems and of the
five-volume Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature.

Tom Mason read English at Oxford and wrote his PhD at Cambridge. He taught in the English Department at the University of Bristol from 1978. Most of his published work has been concerned with English poetry and literary criticism of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Preface
Introduction
Part One: Chaucer in 1700
1. Chaucer and the Progress of Poetry: The Seventeenth-century Bequest
2. The Father of Poetry and The Father of Criticism: Chaucer Renewed?
3. Palamon and Arcite: Archaism, Anachronism, Heroic Fortitude, and Uncaring Gods
4. The Cock and the Fox: Apologues, Amplification, and Embellishments
Part Two: Comic and Naturalistic Tales
5. Chaucer's Characters, the Character of Chaucer, and the Character of Chaucer's Verse
6. The True, Enlivened, Natural: The Monk and The Merchant's Wife, January and May, Phoebus and the Crow, The Carpenter of Oxford, and The Miller of Trumpington
7. Some Eighteenth-Century Wives of Bath
8. Samuel Johnson and Chaucer: 'The First of our Versifyers Who Wrote Poetically'
Part Three: Gothic, Romantic, and Visionary Poems
9. Visions, Proclamations, and Courts of Love
10. Pathos, Realism, and Romance: Chaucer and the Brothers Warton
11. Chaucer and the Temples of Fame
12. Poets and Antiquarians: The Eighteenth-Century Bequest