Title: The Uneven "?Father?" of English Literature
Product review: If you are going to read Chaucer--and, truly to be educated, I guess one must--do not go to the trouble of buying this massive volume. Read a selection of the best, because so much of Chaucer is not the best that one wonders why read him at all. Perhaps the answer to the latter question is because of our obsession with firsts: he is one of the first British poets, and indeed a voluminous amount of his work has survived. As far as medieval literature goes, I find parts of the Decameron and all of Dante infinitely superior. If you really want to invest your time and money wisely, read the Riverside Shakespeare or the Riverside Milton...Leave Chaucer to the "experts."
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