Words Unto Whom: Adam Pynkhurst, Chaucer’s Owne Scriveyn

In her introduction to Chaucers Words Unto Adam, His Owne Scriveyn, published in The Riverside Chaucer, Laina Z. Gross begins with a quote from F. N. Robinson, The lines to Adam Scriveyn, which read like one of the personal epigrams of the ancients, reveal some of the anxieties which beset an author before the invention of printing. The poem could hardly be more vivid if the record searchers should succeed in discovering Adams family name(634). To this, Gross adds only, the record searchers...