Chaucer to Spenser
Subtitle: A Critical Reader (Blackwell Anthologies)
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Limited
Published: January 1, 2000
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1000
ISBN-13: 9780631199366
First sentence: Geoffrey Chaucer was born about 1343, only son of a wealthy London wine-merchant grew richer after bequests from relatives who died in the Black Death (1349), and could afford to send his son into service as a page in the household of the countess of Ulster (1357).