. Lives of great English writers from Chaucer to Browning. BIBLIOGRAPHY Both for facts and for lists of the best biographies the Dic-tionary of National Biography is the most useful source. For theassistance of readers, however, to whom so comprehensive a workis not accessible there are given in the following accounts: (1)the chief biography of each man; (2) when this may be found toolong, the most useful shorter biographies (not exceeding onevolume each). 1. For Chaucer the Life by A. W. Ward, in the EnglishMen of Letters Series (1 vol.), is the most useful. It is based, ofcourse, on the Life
. Lives of great English writers from Chaucer to Browning. BIBLIOGRAPHY Both for facts and for lists of the best biographies the Dic-tionary of National Biography is the most useful source. For theassistance of readers, however, to whom so comprehensive a workis not accessible there are given in the following accounts: (1)the chief biography of each man; (2) when this may be found toolong, the most useful shorter biographies (not exceeding onevolume each). 1. For Chaucer the Life by A. W. Ward, in the EnglishMen of Letters Series (1 vol.), is the most useful. It is based, ofcourse, on the Life Records of Chaucer printed in various numbersof the Chaucer Society publications. Valuable for further readingare : Chaucer and Some of his Friends, by G. L. Kittredge, inModern Philology, i, 1 ; English Wayfaring Life in the XIVCentury, by Jusserand ; Fifteenth Century Prose and Verse,by A. W. Pollard. 2. For Ralegh the Life (2 vols.) by Edward Edwards isvaluable chiefly for the letters it contains ; a better and shorterlife is that (1 vol.) by W. Stab
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