Derek Albert Pearsall

Derek Pearsall is the Gurney Professor of English at Harvard University and was Professor and Co-Director of the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of York, 1965-85. His numerous publications include "John Lydgate" (1970), "Old English and Middle English Poetry" (1977), "The Canterbury Tales: A Critical Study" (1985), "An Annotated Critical Bibliography of Langland" (1990) and "The Life of Geoffrey Chaucer" (1992).

Derek Pearsall is the Gurney Professor of English at Harvard University and was Professor and Co-Director of the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of York, 1965-85. His numerous publications include "John Lydgate" (1970), "Old English and Middle English Poetry" (1977), "The Canterbury Tales: A Critical Study" (1985), "An Annotated Critical Bibliography of Langland" (1990) and "The Life of Geoffrey Chaucer" (1992). See less