A Taste of Chaucer

A Taste of Chaucer

Author: Geoffrey Chaucer

Publisher:

Published: 1964

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13:

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Verses from the Canterbury Tales in the original and translated form provides an introduction to Chaucer and Middle English literature.


The Canterbury Tales

The Canterbury Tales

Author: Geoffrey Chaucer

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2005-09-29

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 0141966793

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The most complete of all remaining surviving fragments sections of The Canterbury Tales, the First Fragment contains some of Chaucer's most widely enjoyed work. In The General Prologue, Chaucer introduces his pilgrims through a set of speaking portraits, drawn with a clarity that makes no attempt to conceal their peculiarities. The four tales that follow - those of the Knight, Miller, Reeve and Cook - reveal a wide variety of human preoccupations: whether chivalrous, romantic or simply sexual. Brilliantly bawdy and subtly complex, each of these tales is alive with Chaucer's skills as a poet, storyteller and creator of comedy.


The Knight's Tale

The Knight's Tale

Author: Chaucer Geoffrey

Publisher: Legare Street Press

Published: 2022-10-27

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781016195515

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The Canterbury Tales

The Canterbury Tales

Author: Geoffrey Chaucer

Publisher: Xist Publishing

Published: 2016-03-24

Total Pages: 963

ISBN-13: 1681959089

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The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer from Coterie Classics All Coterie Classics have been formatted for ereaders and devices and include a bonus link to the free audio book. “Then you compared a woman's love to Hell, To barren land where water will not dwell, And you compared it to a quenchless fire, The more it burns the more is its desire To burn up everything that burnt can be. You say that just as worms destroy a tree A wife destroys her husband and contrives, As husbands know, the ruin of their lives. ” ― Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales The Canterbury Tales are collection of stories by Chaucer, each attributed to a fictional medieval pilgrim.


The Canterbury Tales in Modern Verse

The Canterbury Tales in Modern Verse

Author: Geoffrey Chaucer

Publisher: Hackett Publishing

Published: 2005-03-15

Total Pages: 351

ISBN-13: 160384063X

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Readers of this witty and fluent new translation of The Canterbury Tales should find themselves turning page after page: by recasting Chaucer's ten-syllable couplets into eight-syllable lines, Joseph Glaser achieves a lighter, more rapid cadence than other translators, a four-beat rhythm well-established in the English poetic tradition up to Chaucer's time. Glaser's shortened lines make compelling reading and mirror the elegance and variety of Chaucer's verse to a degree rarely met by translations that copy Chaucer beat for beat. Moreover, this translation's full, Chaucerian range of diction--from earthy to Latinate--conveys the great scope of Chaucer's interests and effects. The selection features complete translations of the majority of the stories, including all of the more familiar tales and narrative links along with abridgments or summaries of the others. To reflect Chaucer's interest in poetic technique, Glaser presents the tales written in non-couplet stanzas in their original forms. An Introduction, marginal glosses, bibliography, and notes are also included.


Five Canterbury Tales

Five Canterbury Tales

Author: Geoffrey Chaucer

Publisher: OXFORD

Published: 2009-12-17

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780194247580

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A retelling of five of Chaucer's classic tales in simplified language for new readers. Includes activities to enhance reading comprehension and improve vocabulary.