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Reading Chaucer S Poems
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Author : Bernard O'Donoghue
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2015-08-18
Reading Chaucer S Poems written by Bernard O'Donoghue and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-18 with Poetry categories.
Geoffrey Chaucer is rightly regarded as the Father of English Literature. His observant wit, his narrative skill and characterization, his linguistic invention, have been a well from which the language's greatest writers have drawn: Shakespeare, Pope, Austen, Dickens among them. A courtier, a trade emissary and diplomat, he fought in the Hundred Years War and was captured and ransomed; his marriage into the family of John of Gaunt ensured his influence in political society. For more than a decade, he was engaged on his most famous work of all, The Canterbury Tales, until his death around 1400; there is no record of the precise date or the circumstances of his demise, despite vivid and colourful speculation. Bernard O'Donoghue is one of the country's leading poets and medievalists. His accessible new selection includes a linking commentary on the chosen texts, together with a comprehensive line-for-line glossary that makes this the most approachable and accessible introduction to Chaucer that readers can buy.
Chaucer S Poetry
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Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 1975
Chaucer S Poetry written by Geoffrey Chaucer and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975 with Social Science categories.
Complete Works Of Geoffrey Chaucer
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Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
language : en
Publisher: Cosimo, Inc.
Release Date : 2008-01-01
Complete Works Of Geoffrey Chaucer written by Geoffrey Chaucer and has been published by Cosimo, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-01-01 with Literary Collections categories.
It is impossible to overstate the importance of English poet GEOFFREY CHAUCER (c. 1343 c. 1400) to the development of literature in the English language. His writings which were popular during his own lifetime with the nobility as well as with the increasingly literate merchant class marked the first celebration of the English vernacular as a tongue worthy of literary endeavor, most notably in his unfinished narrative poem The Canterbury Tales, the format and structure of which continues to be imitated by writers today. But the impact of Chaucer s work was felt even into the 16th and 17th centuries, when the first major collections of his writings set a high standard for how authors should be presented to the reading public. This widely esteemed seven-volume set first published in the 1890s by British academic WALTER WILLIAM SKEAT (1835 1912), Erlington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Cambridge University is based solely on Chaucer s original manuscripts and the earliest available published works (with any significant variations or deviations between versions highlighted in the extensive notes), and comes complete with Skeat s informative commentary on many passages. Volume I features a detailed life of Chaucer; a complete list of Chaucer s works; The Romaunt of the Rose, a translation of a popular and controversial French poem of courtly love typically attributed to Chaucer; and minor poems including: The Book of the Duchesse The Compleynt of Mars The Parlement of Foules A Compleint to His Lady Merciles Beaut proverbs of Chaucer and others.
A Chaucer Reader
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Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
language : en
Publisher: Harcourt Brace College Publishers
Release Date : 1952
A Chaucer Reader written by Geoffrey Chaucer and has been published by Harcourt Brace College Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1952 with Poetry categories.
Poetry
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Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003-01-01
Poetry written by Geoffrey Chaucer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-01-01 with categories.
The Canterbury Tales And Other Poems
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Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2014-05-21
The Canterbury Tales And Other Poems written by Geoffrey Chaucer and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-21 with Literary Collections categories.
THE object of this volume is to place before the general reader our two early poetic masterpieces — The Canterbury Tales and The Faerie Queen; to do so in a way that will render their "popular perusal" easy in a time of little leisure and unbounded temptations to intellectual languor; and, on the same conditions, to present a liberal and fairly representative selection from the less important and familiar poems of Chaucer and Spenser. There is, it may be said at the outset, peculiar advantage and propriety in placing the two poets side by side in the manner now attempted for the first time. Although two centuries divide them, yet Spenser is the direct and really the immediate successor to the poetical inheritance of Chaucer. Those two hundred years, eventful as they were, produced no poet at all worthy to take up the mantle that fell from Chaucer's shoulders; and Spenser does not need his affected archaisms, nor his frequent and reverent appeals to "Dan Geffrey," to vindicate for himself a place very close to his great predecessor in the literary history of England. If Chaucer is the "Well of English undefiled," Spenser is the broad and stately river that yet holds the tenure of its very life from the fountain far away in other and ruder scenes.The Canterbury Tales, so far as they are in verse, have been printed without any abridgement or designed change in the sense. But the two Tales in prose — Chaucer's Tale of Meliboeus, and the Parson's long Sermon on Penitence — have been contracted, so as to exclude thirty pages of unattractive prose, and to admit the same amount of interesting and characteristic poetry. The gaps thus made in the prose Tales, however, are supplied by careful outlines of the omitted matter, so that the reader need be at no loss to comprehend the whole scope and sequence of the original. With The Faerie Queen a bolder course has been pursued. The great obstacle to the popularity of Spencer's splendid work has lain less in its language than in its length. If we add together the three great poems of antiquity — the twenty-four books of the Iliad, the twenty-four books of the Odyssey, and the twelve books of the Aeneid — we get at the dimensions of only one-half of The Faerie Queen. The six books, and the fragment of a seventh, which alone exist of the author's contemplated twelve, number about 35,000 verses; the sixty books of Homer and Virgil number no more than 37,000. The mere bulk of the poem, then, has opposed a formidable barrier to its popularity; to say nothing of the distracting effect produced by the numberless episodes, the tedious narrations, and the constant repetitions, which have largely swelled that bulk. In this volume the poem is compressed into two-thirds of its original space, through the expedient of representing the less interesting and more mechanical passages by a condensed prose outline, in which it has been sought as far as possible to preserve the very words of the poet. While deprecating a too critical judgement on the bare and constrained precis standing in such trying juxtaposition, it is hoped that the labour bestowed in saving the reader the trouble of wading through much that is not essential for the enjoyment of Spencer's marvellous allegory, will not be unappreciated.
Readings In Medieval Poetry
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Author : A. C. Spearing
language : en
Publisher: CUP Archive
Release Date : 1989-05-26
Readings In Medieval Poetry written by A. C. Spearing and has been published by CUP Archive this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989-05-26 with Literary Criticism categories.
Readings in Medieval Poetry is a linked collection of essays on such poems as the Song of Roland, King Horn, Havelok, Sir Orfeo, Chaucer's Book of the Duchess, House of Fame and Troilus and Criseyde, the alliterative Morte Arthure, The Siege of Jerusalem, Purity, Pearl, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and Piers Plowman. The connecting purpose is to open up a variety of kinds of medieval poetry to modern readers; and, while the methods used vary with the kinds of poetry being discussed, they frequently involve, along with historical treatments in terms of medieval practices and systems of ideas, the adoption and adaptation of theoretical frameworks borrowed from outside the medieval field.
New Readings Of Chaucer S Poetry
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Author : Robert G. Benson
language : en
Publisher: DS Brewer
Release Date : 2003
New Readings Of Chaucer S Poetry written by Robert G. Benson and has been published by DS Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Literary Criticism categories.
A wide range of new scholarship on Chaucer's poetry. This collection of essays makes available a wide range of new scholarship on Chaucer's poetry. Opening essays address the issues of "Chaucerian representation" and "Chaucerian poetics", arguing for the multiplicity and complexityof what Chaucer "represents" and for the importance of his dual Anglo-French background in enabling him to articulate that complexity. Chaucer's use of Ovidian and Ciceronian sources and ideas is examined, and his pursuit of simplicity and suspicion of "delicacy"; the potent issues of sexuality and spirituality, and money and death (with Chaucer's own ending and his thoughts on last things) complete the collection. Contributors: DEREK BREWER, HELEN COOPER, PAUL DOWER, JOHN V. FLEMING, JOHN HILL, TRAUGOTT LAWLER, CELIA LEWIS, R. BARTON PALMER, WILLIAM PROVOST, JOHN PLUMMER, WILLIAM ROGERS.
Complete Works Of Geoffrey Chaucer
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Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
language : en
Publisher: Cosimo, Inc.
Release Date : 2008-11-30
Complete Works Of Geoffrey Chaucer written by Geoffrey Chaucer and has been published by Cosimo, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-11-30 with Literary Collections categories.
It is impossible to overstate the importance of English poet GEOFFREY CHAUCER (c. 1343 c. 1400) to the development of literature in the English language. His writings which were popular during his own lifetime with the nobility as well as with the increasingly literate merchant class marked the first celebration of the English vernacular as a tongue worthy of literary endeavor, most notably in his unfinished narrative poem The Canterbury Tales, the format and structure of which continues to be imitated by writers today. But the impact of Chaucer s work was felt even into the 16th and 17th centuries, when the first major collections of his writings set a high standard for how authors should be presented to the reading public. This widely esteemed seven-volume set first published in the 1890s by British academic WALTER WILLIAM SKEAT (1835 1912), Erlington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Cambridge University is based solely on Chaucer s original manuscripts and the earliest available published works (with any significant variations or deviations between versions highlighted in the extensive notes), and comes complete with Skeat s informative commentary on many passages. Volume VII features works generally appended to collections of Chaucer s work, and sometimes attributed to him, including: Thomas Usk: The Testament of Love The Plowmans Tale Jack Upland John Gower: The Praise of Peace Thomas Hoccleve: The Letter of Cupid John Lydgate: The Complaint of the Black Knight Sir Richard Ros: A Balade: Warning Men to Beware of Deceitful Women and more.
The Prologue To The Canterbury Tales The Romaunt Of The Rose And Minor Poems
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Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
language : en
Publisher: Trieste Publishing
Release Date : 2017-09-10
The Prologue To The Canterbury Tales The Romaunt Of The Rose And Minor Poems written by Geoffrey Chaucer and has been published by Trieste Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-10 with categories.
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