Reviews, Awards
9 March 2001

C. S. Cox
Reviewed in Choice
"Well-organized and informative, this site effectively achieves its stated purpose to make more easily accessible the vast amount of Internet material about Chaucer. Students, teachers, and scholars of Chaucer will find a broad array of useful electronic and print resources, including primary texts, critical studies, graphics, audio readings, syllabi and related course materials, online discussion groups, and databases. Thematically organized and succinctly annotated to assist users in determining the relevance and quality of items, the site includes easily navigated areas on Background, Bibliography, Biography, Commentary, Language, Images, Outlines, Reception, Teaching, Texts, and Links. Webmaster David Wilson-Okamura (Univ. of Chicago) regularly updates the listings with additions and modifications, and keeps the URLs of links current; user feedback is welcome. Broader in scope than the highly regarded Geoffrey Chaucer Website from Harvard <http://icg.fas.harvard.edu/~chaucer/>, and more focused than the comprehensive medieval studies site The Labyrinth <http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/>, Chaucer greatly facilitates the use of Internet Chaucer resources and is recommended for all academic audiences." Choice 36:8 (May 1999): 33/E 36-4811).

Andrew Osmond
Reviewed in the Scout Report for Social Sciences
"Geoffrey Chaucer -- courtier, diplomat, and poet -- is arguably one of the most important figures in English literature. His philosophically profound, yet at times bawdy, body of work represents true mastery of narrative art. David Wilson-Okamura, a Chaucer enthusiast and PhD candidate at the University of Chicago, has compiled Chaucer: An Annotated Guide to Online Resources to provide easy access to high-quality online information on the great late fourteenth-century poet. The selective guide, which offers succinct annotations divided into eleven well-organized sections, covers all aspects of Chaucerian scholarship. Sections are devoted to historical and cultural backgrounds, scholarly bibliographies, biographies, literary commentaries, images and illustrations, linguistic supplements, critical analyses, teaching tools, study guides, and online texts." Scout Report for Social Sciences, December 15, 1998: http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/scout/report/socsci/1998/ss-981215.html#10.

Microsoft
Encarta Web Center
Featured web link: "This privately maintained site offers an annotated directory of Internet resources related to English poet Geoffrey Chaucer, including biographies, bibliographies, online texts, commentary, and sites for teachers."

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