Word: chaucerian
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...conception of Chaucer as 'the most modern of English poets and one of the most popular.' The style is that of a lecturer, lively at times almost colloquial, but always full of matter, fresh and stimulating. In the preface, Professor Kittredge acknowledges his debt to the work of other Chaucerian scholars 'in both hemispheres,' but there is perhaps no book on Chaucer which owes so little to the labors of other men. It has the true originality of the scholar who has so thoroughly assimilated all that has been done before him as to make it in the best sense...