Father Chaucer and the Vivification of Print Author(s): Louise M. Bishop Source: The Journal of English and Germanic Philology, Vol. 106, No. 3 (Jul., 2007), pp. 336- 363 Published by: University of Illinois Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/27712660 . Accessed: 25/10/2011 14:02 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact
[email protected]. University of Illinois Press is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to The Journal of English and Germanic Philology. http://www.jstor.org Father Chaucer and the Vivification of Print Louise M. Bishop, Robert D. Clark Honors College, University of Oregon Even in the fifteenth century, Chaucer was seen by his countrymen as the was preeminent English poet, the father, as Dryden to call him in 1700, of English poetry.1 Despite general agreement in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries Thomas about Chaucer's poetic preeminence, however, Speght's edition of Chaucer's Works (1598, STC 5077, 5078, 5079; 1602, STC 5080, 5081)2 adds elaborate textual apparatus?illustrated frontispieces, life i. Ethan Knapp, The Bureaucratic Muse: Thomas Hoccleve and the Literature of Late Medieval England (University Park, PA: Penn State Univ.