内容简介：
Increased scholarly interest in various 15th-century Chaucerian poets - notably Hoccleve, Lydgate and Henryson - has prompted medievalists to read these poems anew. This text investigates the scribes, glossators and poets whose reception and transmission of Chaucer's writings influence our own reading of them today, focusing chiefly on the Chaucerian influence in their poetry. These essays cover not only a range of Chaucer's writings, but also touch on the history of the English language, the glosses to Chaucer's poetry, English and Scottish poets' appropriations of Chaucer, the implicit criticism and interpretations of Chaucer's writings in the 15th century, and the first printing of Chaucer's works by William Caxton.