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Hardcover in publisher’s dust-jacket. 295 pages. Bibliography, Index. First edition, first printing with full number line. A scholarly and well presented thesis on the influence of Dante’s Divine Comedy on Chaucer, and in particular, the Canterbury Tales. Neuse argues the attraction was not so much “spiritual” as rooted in the more secular and human desire to produce, borrowing Bertolt Brecht’s phrase – “epic theater.” No previous ownership marks. A clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy, near as new. Near fine in a near fine dust-jacket.