Bertrand H. Bronson (1903-1986) was a graduate of the University of Michigan, of Harvard, of Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar, and of Yale. For many years he was Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. He edited Samuel Johnson: Rasselas, Poems, and Selected Prose and is author of The Traditional Tunes of the Child Ballads.

"With almost unfailing regularity the Alexander Lectures seem to produce notable books which somehow contrive to force their readers to efforts of re-examination. In Search of Chaucer is no exception to the series in this respect. Professor Bronson gives a serious jolt to many of the underlying assumptions of modern Chaucerian studies as they are reflected in articles in the journals, and, even more, in the books of selected criticism that are creeping into the paperbacks."- Review of English Studies "Its tone is energetic and forthright, courteous even where combative; its learning is humane; perception is sharpened with wit and commonsense. It asks useful questions, and though freshly thought out is a good general appreciation along fairly familiar lines."- Modern Language Review "These lectures together form a very valuable contribution to Chaucerian criticism, not so much for any new approach which they provide as for the simplicity and common sense of the writer’s attitude which produce an atmosphere too often lacking nowadays in literary criticism generally."- Speculum

Bertrand H. Bronson (1903-1986) was a graduate of the University of Michigan, of Harvard, of Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar, and of Yale. For many years he was Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. He edited Samuel Johnson: Rasselas, Poems, and Selected Prose and is author of The Traditional Tunes of the Child Ballads.

"With almost unfailing regularity the Alexander Lectures seem to produce notable books which somehow contrive to force their readers to efforts of re-examination. In Search of Chaucer is no exception to the series in this respect. Professor Bronson gives a serious jolt to many of the underlying assumptions of modern Chaucerian studies as they are reflected in articles in the journals, and, even more, in the books of selected criticism that are creeping into the paperbacks."- Review of English Studies "Its tone is energetic and forthright, courteous even where combative; its learning is humane; perception is sharpened with wit and commonsense. It asks useful questions, and though freshly thought out is a good general appreciation along fairly familiar lines."- Modern Language Review "These lectures together form a very valuable contribution to Chaucerian criticism, not so much for any new approach which they provide as for the simplicity and common sense of the writer’s attitude which produce an atmosphere too often lacking nowadays in literary criticism generally."- Speculum

Bertrand H. Bronson (1903-1986) was a graduate of the University of Michigan, of Harvard, of Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar, and of Yale. For many years he was Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. He edited Samuel Johnson: Rasselas, Poems, and Selected Prose and is author of The Traditional Tunes of the Child Ballads.

"With almost unfailing regularity the Alexander Lectures seem to produce notable books which somehow contrive to force their readers to efforts of re-examination. In Search of Chaucer is no exception to the series in this respect. Professor Bronson gives a serious jolt to many of the underlying assumptions of modern Chaucerian studies as they are reflected in articles in the journals, and, even more, in the books of selected criticism that are creeping into the paperbacks."- Review of English Studies "Its tone is energetic and forthright, courteous even where combative; its learning is humane; perception is sharpened with wit and commonsense. It asks useful questions, and though freshly thought out is a good general appreciation along fairly familiar lines."- Modern Language Review "These lectures together form a very valuable contribution to Chaucerian criticism, not so much for any new approach which they provide as for the simplicity and common sense of the writer’s attitude which produce an atmosphere too often lacking nowadays in literary criticism generally."- Speculum