
Professor Seth Lerer (1956 -) is a contemporary Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Stanford University, specialising in historical analyses of the English language, in addition to critical analyses of the works of several authors, including in particular Geoffrey Chaucer. -wikipedia

A Reader's History, from Aesop to Harry Potter
2008

Literary Culture and the Arts of Deceit
1997

2024

A Portable History of the Language
2007

1990

1999

2013

A Feeling for the Literary Past: The Literary Agenda
2016