This book makes an excellent contribution to studies of both Chaucerian reception and the eighteenth century. It is a fitting final work for Mason, who passed away shortly after its publication, and it will go on to enjoy an enduring 'second life' in future work on both these topics.
Katie Mennis, Translation and Literature
This is a deeply significant new work, which both crystallises and establishes a much-overlooked field of Chaucerian reception and provides an invaluable resource for future scholars of the subject.
Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen, 260:2
Chaucer in the Eighteenth Century is an important, even essential, book.
A. W. Lee, The Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer