Author: John Matthews ManlyPublisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press
ISBN:
Category : Poets, English
Languages : la
Pages : 670
Book Description
Chaucer Life-records
Author: John Matthews ManlyPublisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press
ISBN:
Category : Poets, English
Languages : la
Pages : 670
Book Description
Chaucer Life-records
Author: Martin Michael CrowPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description
Chaucer
Author: Marion TurnerPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691210152
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description
"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.
Life Records of Chaucer ...
Author: Life-records of Chaucer
Author: Life-records of Chaucer ...
Author: Life-records of Chaucer
Author: Chaucer Life-records
Author: Martin Michael CrowPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description
Life-records of Chaucer: The robberies of Chaucer by Richard Brerelay and others at Westminster, and at Hatcham, Surrey, on Tuesday, Sept. 6, 1390
Author: The Life of Geoffrey Chaucer
Author: Derek PearsallPublisher: Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN: 9781557866653
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
This important new critical biography traces in carefully considered detail what is known of Geoffrey Chaucer's personal life while exploring the fascinating relationship between the man of affairs, who made so many 'improvisations and accommodations' to ensure his own survival, and the poet. A major reexamination of England's greatest narrative poet, it is supplemented with reproductions of Chaucer portraits and other illustrations, including maps of medieval England.