Tolkien on Chaucer, 1913-1959

Tolkien on Chaucer, 1913-59 traces Tolkien's career-long engagement with the works of Geoffrey Chaucer and shows how Chaucer was a major source of inspiration for all of Tolkien's creative works, most notably The Lord of the Rings.

Auteur

John M. Bowers has published some twenty Chaucerian articles, and his books include Chaucer and Langland: The Antagonistic Tradition (2007) and, with Oxford University Press, Tolkien's Lost Chaucer (2019). He was a Rhodes Scholar at Merton College, Tolkien's Oxford college, and his work has been supported by NEH and Guggenheim Fellowships. He has also published a lecture series for Great Courses on The Western Literary Canon in Context. Peter Steffensen received his BA and MA in English from Georgia State University and his PhD from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He specializes in Middle English Literature and currently teaches English at Bishop Gorman High School.