Chaucer At Work

Author : D. Carlson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137039140
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chaucer's Jobs written by D. Carlson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geoffrey Chaucer was not a writer, primarily, but a privileged official place-holder. Prone to violence, including rape, assault, and extortion, the poet was employed first at domestic personal service and subsequently at police-work of various sorts, protecting the established order during a period of massive social upset. Chaucer's Jobs shows that the servile and disciplinary nature of the daily work Chaucer did was repeated in his poetry, which by turns flatters his aristocratic betters and deals out discipline to malcontent others. Carlson contends that it was this social-political quality of Chaucer's writings, not artistic merit, that made him the 'Father of English Poetry'.

Author : Donald Roy Howard
Publisher : New York : Dutton
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 680 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chaucer written by Donald Roy Howard and published by New York : Dutton. This book was released on 1987 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book of the Duchess written by Geoffrey Chaucer and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-10 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 646 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book “The” Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer written by Geoffrey Chaucer and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : Collector's Library
ISBN 13 : 9781907360510
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Kelmscott Chaucer written by Geoffrey Chaucer and published by Collector's Library. This book was released on 2011-09 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Kelmscott Chaucer is the most memorable and beautiful edition of the complete works of the first great English poet. Next to The Gutenberg Bible, it is considered the outstanding typographic achievement of all time. There are 87 full-page illustrations by Sir Edward Burne-Jones, and the borders, decorations and initials are drawn byWilliam Morris himself. Only 425 copies of this magnificent work were produced in 1896, and this beautiful monochrome facsimile, slightly smaller than the original, makes this glorious book available to all. A fascinating Introduction by Nicholas Barker places the book and its importance in context. The main text is followed by a black and white facsimile of ANoteby William Morris on his Aims in Founding the Kelmscott Press, together with a Short History of the Press by S C Cockerell.

Author : Marion Turner
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691210152
Total Pages : 626 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chaucer written by Marion Turner and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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 : Seth Lerer
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300109290
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Yale Companion to Chaucer written by Seth Lerer and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays on Chaucer's poetry, this guide provides up-to-date information on the history and textual contexts of Chaucer's work, on the ranges of critical interpretation, and on the poet's place in English and European literary history.

Author : Rosalyn Rossignol
Publisher : Facts on File
ISBN 13 : 9780816032969
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chaucer A to Z written by Rosalyn Rossignol and published by Facts on File. This book was released on 1999 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An encyclopedic guide to the fourteenth-century poet's life and works examines Chaucer's language, historical events, and literary influences in his work.

Author : Helen Fulton
Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 1786836793
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chaucer and Italian Culture written by Helen Fulton and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2021-01-15 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chaucerian scholarship has long been intrigued by the nature and consequences of Chaucer’s exposure to Italian culture during his professional visits to Italy in the 1370s. In this volume, leading scholars take a new and more holistic view of Chaucer’s engagement with Italian cultural practice, moving beyond the traditional ‘sources and analogues’ approach to reveal the varied strands of Italian literature, art, politics and intellectual life that permeate Chaucer’s work. Each chapter examines from different angles links between Chaucerian texts and Italian intellectual models, including poetics, chorography, visual art, classicism, diplomacy and prophecy. Echoes of Petrarch, Dante and Boccaccio reverberate throughout the book, across a rich and diverse landscape of Italian cultural legacies. Together, the chapters cover a wide range of theory and reference, while sharing a united understanding of the rich impact of Italian culture on Chaucer’s narrative art.

Author : David B. Raybin
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271035673
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chaucer written by David B. Raybin and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Eleven essays that explore how modern scholarship interprets Chaucer's writings"--Provided by publisher.