Professor Kane is widely regarded as the leading middle English textual and literary scholar of our time and this collection of his essays will be widely welcomed. They focus largely upon the texts of Chaucer and Langland and demonstrate in an exemplary way how critical issues can arise from meticulous textual study.

George Kane was Emeritus Professor of English Language and Medieval Literature in the University of London, where he taught for thirty years. He was twice awarded the Sir Israel Gollancz Memorial Prize of the British Academy (in 1963 and 1999).