Chaucer, 1340-1400

Chaucer, 1340-1400

Author: Richard West

Publisher: Da Capo Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 9780786709250

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Honoring the six hundredth anniversary of Chaucer's death, a new critical biography of the great English writer follows his adventures from a childhood overshadowed by the Plague, to the 100 Years War in France and life as a diplomat.


Troilus and Criseyde

Troilus and Criseyde

Author: Geoffrey Chaucer

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2008-11-13

Total Pages: 255

ISBN-13: 0199555079

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Chaucer's masterpiece and one of the greatest narrative poems in English, the story of the lovers Troilus and Criseyde is renowned for its deep humanity and penetrating psychological insight. This new translation into modern English by a major Chaucerian scholar includes an index of the names relating to the Trojan War and an Index of Proverbs.


Chaucer

Chaucer

Author: Marion Turner

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2020-09-22

Total Pages: 626

ISBN-13: 0691210152

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"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.


Geoffrey Chaucer in Context

Geoffrey Chaucer in Context

Author: Ian Johnson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-07-11

Total Pages: 499

ISBN-13: 1107035643

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Provides a rich and varied reference resource, illuminating the different contexts for Chaucer and his work.


Works

Works

Author: Geoffrey Chaucer

Publisher:

Published: 1899

Total Pages: 848

ISBN-13:

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The Riverside Chaucer

The Riverside Chaucer

Author: Geoffrey Chaucer

Publisher: American Chemical Society

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 1386

ISBN-13: 0199552096

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A re-editing of F.N. Robinson's second edition of The works of Geoffrey Chaucer published in 1957 by the team of experts at the Riverside Institute who have greatly expanded the introductory material, explanatory notes, textual notes, bibliography and glossary. The result of many years' study. The Riverside Chaucer is the most authentic and exciting edition available of Chaucer's complete works.


The Book of the Duchess

The Book of the Duchess

Author: Geoffrey Chaucer

Publisher: DigiCat

Published: 2022-08-10

Total Pages: 50

ISBN-13:

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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.


English Literature in the Age of Chaucer

English Literature in the Age of Chaucer

Author: Dieter Mehl

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-06-11

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 1317871553

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Written in an engaging and accessible manner, English Literature in the Age of Chaucer serves as both a lucid introduction to Middle English literature for those coming fresh to the study of earlier English writing, and as a stimulating examination of the themes, traditions and the literary achievement of a number of particulary original and interesting authors. In addition to detailed and sensitive treatment of Chaucer's major works, the book includes chapters on his chief contemporaries, such as John Gower, William Langland and the Gawain-poet. It also examines the often underrated contribution to the English literary tradition of his successors John Lydgate and Thomas Hoccleve, as well as the interesting and original work of the Scottish poets, Robert Henryson, William Dunbar and Gavin Douglas, who also claim Chaucer as their model. Apart from the narrative poetry of Chaucer and his followers, the book also contains chapters on the Middle English lyric; Middle English prose, including Mandeville's travels; the most original and imaginative writings of the Middle English mystics, in particular Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe; and Thomas Malory's impressive prose compilation of Arthurian stories.