Poetic Obituaries: [Derek] Brewer was the foremost Chaucerian scholar

of his time. He was always ready to make Chaucer and his contemporaries accessible to readers who were not medievalists: Chaucer; An Introduction to Chaucer, Chaucer in His Time, and Chaucer and His World are among his titles. His publications were not only in scholarly prose. He wrote verse, too, and was proud that his poetry received the Seatonian Prize of the university 11 times.

from The Times: Professor Derek Brewer: Scholar and Master of Emmanuel College

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