Effigies of the most famous English writers from Chaucer to Johnson

Abstract This book makes available J. R. R. Tolkien’s career-long writings on Chaucer from his 1913 undergraduate essay on the poet’s language to his 1959 retirement...

The House of Fame, one of Chaucer’s major dream-visions stories, appears here in the version published by Durham Medieval Texts and edited by Professor Nicholas R. Havely, with bot...

A Student Guide to Chaucer’s Middle English represents the decades-long material that Professor Peter G. Beidler developed to help his students at Lehigh University understand the ...

Abstract Samuel Johnson is not only famous for his English Dictionary, and as the subject of Boswell's great biography; he was also the author of many different k...

Abstract Samuel Johnson is not only famous for his English Dictionary, and as the subject of Boswell's great biography; he was also the author of many different k...

Abstract The United States of English tells the story of American speech from its earliest beginnings to its current state. Topics covered include the following: the...

This chapter introduces one of the most understudied communities of New Negro writers. Commencing in the 1920s, African American writer Georgia Douglas Johnson invited writers to h...