Seymour Phillips considers aspects of the biography of the medieval English king Edward II, whose tumultuous twenty-year reign was marked with sexual scandal, political buffeting, and international intrigue.
In the second segment [16:35], James Wimsatt discusses his book about the medieval English poet Geoffrey Chaucer and his French contemporaries.
At the time of these interviews, Phillips, a Fellow at the National Humanities Center (1987-88), was professor of history at University College, Dublin.
Wimsatt, also a Fellow at the Center (1987-88), was professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin.
This edition of Soundings was conducted by Wayne J. Pond.
