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Author : George Lyman Kittredge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0674188527
Author : George Lyman Kittredge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0674112105
Author : George Lyman Kittredge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1925
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105002581580
Author : Marion Turner
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780691210155
"More than any other canonical English writer, Geoffrey Chaucer lived and worked at the centre of political life--yet his poems are anything but conventional. Edgy, complicated, and often dark, they reflect a conflicted world, and their astonishing diversity and innovative language earned Chaucer renown as the father of English literature. Marion Turner, however, reveals him as a great European writer and thinker. To understand his accomplishment, she reconstructs in unprecedented detail the cosmopolitan world of Chaucer's adventurous life, focusing on the places and spaces that fired his imagination. Uncovering important new information about Chaucer's travels, private life, and the early circulation of his writings, this innovative biography documents a series of vivid episodes, moving from the commercial wharves of London to the frescoed chapels of Florence and the kingdom of Navarre, where Christians, Muslims, and Jews lived side by side. The narrative recounts Chaucer's experiences as a prisoner of war in France, as a father visiting his daughter's nunnery, as a member of a chaotic Parliament, and as a diplomat in Milan, where he encountered the writings of Dante and Boccaccio. At the same time, the book offers a comprehensive exploration of Chaucer's writings, taking the reader to the Troy of Troilus and Criseyde, the gardens of the dream visions, and the peripheries and thresholds of The Canterbury Tales. By exploring the places Chaucer visited, the buildings he inhabited, the books he read, and the art and objects he saw, this landmark biography tells the extraordinary story of how a wine merchant's son became the poet of The Canterbury Tales." -- Publisher's description.
Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-10
Category : Poetry
ISBN : EAN:8596547167389
The Book of the Duchess is a surreal poem that was presumably written as an elegy for Blanche, Duchess of Lancaster's (the wife of Geoffrey Chaucer's patron, the royal Duke of Lancaster, John of Gaunt) death in 1368 or 1369. The poem was written a few years after the event and is widely regarded as flattering to both the Duke and the Duchess. It has 1334 lines and is written in octosyllabic rhyming couplets.
Author : Winthrop Wetherbee
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501707094
In this sensitive reading of Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde, Winthrop Wetherbee redefines the nature of Chaucer’s poetic vision. Using as a starting point Chaucer’s profound admiration for the achievement of Dante and the classical poets, Wetherbee sees the Troilus as much more than a courtly treatment of an event in ancient history—it is, he asserts, a major statement about the poetic tradition from which it emerges. Wetherbee demonstrates the evolution of the poet-narrator of the Troilus, who begins as a poet of romance, bound by the characters’ limited worldview, but who in the end becomes a poet capable of realizing the tragic and ultimately the spiritual implications of his story.
Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1040 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0030286549
Author : Helen Phillips,Nick Havely
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317900474
Dream literature is regarded as one of the most important genres in medieval literature and is widely studied. This text provides a succinct and clear introduction to the five central poems that comprise Chaucer's Dream Poetry, and shows his role as a leading adapter of European Literary tradition into English Literature. The poems discussed are The Book of the Duchess, The Legend of Good Women, The Legend of Dido, The Parliament of Fowls and The House of Fame. Each have an introduction setting the poem within the context of Dream Poetry and Chaucer's own work. Appendices of proper names, pronunciation and criticism are also given. This volume is unique is presenting the poems together in an editorial and critical framework. The quality of annotation is unrivalled and will make this text a major addition to the literature suitable for those interested in the genre, literary, or more general history of the period.
Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 1190 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015035331035
Author : Paul Strohm
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781847658999
As the year 1386 began, Geoffrey Chaucer was a middle-aged bureaucrat and sometime poet, living in London and enjoying the perks that came with his close connections to its booming wool trade. When it ended, he was jobless, homeless, out of favour with his friends and living in exile. Such a reversal might have spelled the end of his career; but instead, at the loneliest time of his life, Chaucer made the revolutionary decision to 'maken vertu of necessitee' and keep writing. The result - The Canterbury Tales - was a radically new form of poetry that would make his reputation, bring him to a national audience, and preserve his work for posterity. In The Poet's Tale, Paul Strohm brings Chaucer's world to vivid life, from the streets and taverns of crowded medieval London to rural seclusion in Kent, and reveals this crucial year as a turning point in the fortunes of England's most important poet.
Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1775
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BCUL:1092315785
Author : Dieter Mehl
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1986-12-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521318882
This book is a lucid introduction and intelligent examination of Chaucer's narrative poetry.
Author : Barry A. Windeatt
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : History
ISBN : 9780859910729
This volume makes available in translation the texts that lie behind Chaucer's dream poems - The Book of the Duchess, The Parliament of Fowls, The House of Fame and Prologue to the Legend of Good Women. Chaucer's dream poems are now being increasingly studied and appreciated. With their attractively bookish dreamer figure and their graceful use of conventions and traditions, they have their distinctive place in Chaucer's work. But the nodern reader of these medieval poems particularly needs a sense of their literary context in the tradition of comparable narrative poems - largely in OId French - which Chaucer knew and drew upon. None of these French poems has ever been made available in English translation before, and many of the texts are difficult to access, being available only in dated French scholarly editions. The authors represented are Froissart, Machaut and Deschamps, as well as some minor and anonymous poems, and there are also relevant translations from Cicero and Boccaccio. The book gives an idea of what Chaucer's sources were in themselves, and in what ways the English poet was inspired to use and go beyond them, and this presents a picture of the poet at work. Some of the French poems are translated carefully by Chaucer, while with other poems he is selective, interested in certain sections of his sources only. In further cases, the original material can be seen to have provided a more general point of departure for Chaucer's own developments on his work.
Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2006-05-25
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780141959894
Spanning Chaucer's working life, these four poems build on the medieval convention of 'love visions' - poems inspired by dreams, woven into rich allegories about the rituals and emotions of courtly love. In The Book of the Duchess, the most traditional of the four, the dreamer meets a widower who has loved and lost the perfect lady, and The House of Fame describes a dream journey in which the poet meets with classical divinities. Witty, lively and playful, The Parliament of Birds details an encounter with the birds of the world in the Garden of Nature as they seek to meet their mates, while The Legend of Good Women sees Chaucer being censured by the God of Love, and seeking to make amends, for writing poems that depict unfaithful women. Together, the four create a marvellously witty, lively and humane self-portrait of the poet.
Author : S. H. Rigby
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0719042364
Everyone knows of the Canterbury Tales, acknowledged as one of the leading texts of the English Canon. Consensus about them ends there. Amongst the most written about works of English literature, they still defy categorisation. Was Chaucer a poet of profound religious piety or a sceptic who questioned all religious and moral certainties? Do his pilgrims reflect the actual society of his day, or were they a product of an already well-established literary tradition and convention? Was he a defender of women or a misogynist, who reproduced the antifeminism characteristic of his time? Did his writings present a challenge to the dominant social outlook of late Medieval England or reinforce the status quo? This stimulating new book surveys and assesses these competing critical approaches to Chaucer's work, emphasising the need to see Chaucer in historical context; the context of the social and political concerns of his own day. Writing as a historian, Rigby brings refreshing new insights to this contested old chestnut and Chaucer, and his Tales, are revealed to us as Chaucer's contemporaries would have seen them.
