This third volume of essays under the title continues to explore the work of the Gawain-poet, Langland, Chaucer and Spenser. It also includes analysis of , a direct ancestor of Sir Gawain and Piers Plowman, and examines Dante’s exposition of love in the .

This book discusses the three golden poets of the Golden Age of English poetry in the second half of the fourteenth century, concentrating in particular on Chaucer’s response to Aristotelian moral philosophy.

The thirteen essays in this book, presented in honour of Dr A. V. C. (Carl) Schmidt, are designed to reflect the range of his interests, from his magisterial work on Piers Plowman to his major contribution to the study of Chaucer and the medieval English contemplatives.