Download or read book Chaucer and His English Contemporaries written by William Anthony Davenport and published by Red Globe Press. This book was released on 1998-07-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this work, Tony Davenport sets Chaucer's work in the context of other 14th-century English writing. He compares Chaucer's handling of subjects, themes and literary forms with other major poets - Gower, the Gawain-poet, Langland.