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Author : Grace E. Hadow
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783752382921
Reproduction of the original: Chaucer and His Times by Grace E. Hadow
Author : Grace E. Hadow
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4064066172572
The life and times of the famous English poet, author, and civil servant Geoffrey Chaucer, regarded widely as the "father of English literature", or, alternatively, the "father of English poetry", is the subject of this book. Exploring the mystery of Chaucer's background, author and literary critic, Grace E. Hadow also looks at the works of Chaucer pointing out that Chaucer's diversity of works include prose poetry, ballades, as well as scientific and philosophical writings. Some of his famous works critiqued include: 'The Book of the Duchess', 'The House of Fame', 'The Legend of Good Women', 'Troilus and Criseyde', and, of course, his most famous work, 'The Canterbury Tales'.
Author : John Gardner
Publisher : Barnes & Noble Publishing
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0760712816
Author : Derek Brewer
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 9780859916073
First published in 1978.
Author : Grace E. Hadow
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783752328585
Reproduction of the original: Chaucer and His Times by Grace E. Hadow
Author : Marion Turner
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 47,7 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 : Hadow Grace Eleanor
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1318004047
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Author : Grace Eleanor Hadow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1904
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:651889964
Author : Richard West
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798685558602
'A genuinely fascinating book, the best kind of popular history' Literary Review This first, and some would say greatest, poet of the English language stands before the gateway of the early modern age. Chaucer lived at a time when the elite languages of former conquerors, French and Latin, were both giving way to English - no longer just the vernacular of the common people, but increasingly the language of the court, the law, and of literature. Richard West weaves a fascinating picture of this extraordinary man - spy and poet - whose character has intrigued and puzzled lovers of his comic masterpiece, "The Canterbury Tales". How did Chaucer remain so apparently cheerful and serene, through one of the cruellest eras of history? As a child he survived the Black Death, later he fought in France during the Hundred Years War, served as a diplomat in Italy, and became an MP at the angry beginnings of the Protestant Reformation, the Peasants' Revolt and the overthrow of Richard II. How much was Chaucer shaped by the age, and how much did Chaucer shape his era? This acclaimed biography and history book will appeal to both the general reader and medievalist. Richard West was a celebrated journalist and much admired biographer. He is also the author of 'The Life and Strange Surprising Adventure of Daniel Defoe.'
Author : Peter Brown
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191620706
Chaucer lived through a period of extraordinary upheaval: a protracted war with France, devastating plague, the peasants' revolt, religious controversy, and the overthrow of the king. Compact and comprehensive, this book offers a wide-ranging account of the medieval society from which works such as The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde sprang, and shows how these and other works manifest that society in fictional form. Significant aspects of the literary scene, such as patronage, audience, and performance, help to place Chaucer's practices in their historical framework, and his treatment of love, paganism, and reality are framed within their intellectual and philosophical contexts. The modern reception of Chaucer in film and television adaptations is also examined. Seen through the lens of his cultural experience, this is the perfect critical companion to Chaucer's life and poetry. The book includes a chronology of Chaucer's life and time, suggestions for further reading, websites, illustrations, and a comprehensive index. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Author : Joseph A. Dane
Publisher : punctum books
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781947447561
Mythodologies challenges the implied methodology in contemporary studies in the humanities. We claim, at times, that we gather facts or what we will call evidence, and from that form hypotheses and conclusions. Of course, we recognize that the sum total of evidence for any argument is beyond comprehension; therefore, we construct, and we claim, preliminary hypotheses, perhaps to organize the chaos of evidence, or perhaps simply to find it; we might then see (we claim) whether that evidence challenges our tentative hypotheses. Ideally, we could work this way. Yet the history of scholarship and our own practices suggest we do nothing of the kind. Rather, we work the way we teach our composition students to write: choose or construct a thesis, then invent the evidence to support it. This book has three parts, examining such methods and pseudo-methods of invention in medieval studies, bibliography, and editing. Part One, "Noster Chaucer," looks at examples in Chaucer studies, such as the notion that Chaucer wrote iambic pentameter, and the definition of a canon in Chaucer. "Our" Chaucer has, it seems, little to do with Chaucer himself, and in constructing this entity, Chaucerians are engaged largely in self-validation of their own tradition. Part Two, "Bibliography and Book History," consists of three studies in the field of bibliography: the recent rise in studies of annotations; the implications of presumably neutral terminology in editing, a case-study in cataloguing. Part Three, "Cacophonies: A Bibliographical Rondo," is a series of brief studies extending these critiques to other areas in the humanities. It seems not to matter what we talk about: meter, book history, the sex life of bonobos. In all of these discussions, we see the persistence of error, the intractability of uncritical assumptions, and the dominance of authority over evidence. TABLE OF CONTENTS // Part I. Noster Chaucerus Chap. 1. How Many Chaucerians Does it Take to Count to Eleven? The Meter of Kynaston's 1635 Translation of Troilus and Criseyde and its Implications for Chaucerian Metrics Chap. 2. Chaucer's "Rude Times" Chap. 3. Meditation on Our Chaucer and the History of the Canon Coda. Godwin's Portrait of Chaucer Part II. Bibliography and Book History Chap. 4. The Singularities of Books and Reading . Chap. 5. Editorial Projecting Chap. 6. The Haunting of Suckling's Fragmenta Aurea (1646) Coda. T. F. Dibdin: The Rhetoric of Bibliophilia Part III. Cacophonies: A Bibliographic Rondo Fakes and Frauds: The "Flewelling Antiphonary" and Galileo's Sidereus Nuncius Modernity and Middle English The Quantification of Readability The Elephant Paper and Histories of Medieval Drama The Pynson Chaucer(s) of 1526: Bibliographical Circularity Margaret Mead and the Bonobos Reading My Library
Author : Derek Brewer
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 085991366X
Chaucer's English world-that of the second half of the 14th century-is rich in interest of every kind, and Chaucer was a uniquely perceptive recorder of it. The tensions between tradition and innovation led to serve, sometimes violent, clashes; age-old traditions were contested by the new individualism among the educated, passionate religious dissent in high and low, and revolt by peasants.
Author : David B. Raybin
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0271035676
"Eleven essays that explore how modern scholarship interprets Chaucer's writings"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Donald Roy Howard
Publisher : New York : Dutton
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015012306604
Revered for centuries as the father of English poetry, Geoffrey Chaucer was also a central man of his age--a courtier, soldier, diplomat, public official, a man of action, and a man of the world. In this award-winning biography, Donald R. Howard recreates the public, private, and poetic life of this extraordinary man.
Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 45,9 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.