Author: Percy Goronwy ThomasPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
English Literature Before Chaucer
Author: Percy Goronwy ThomasPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
English Literature Before Chaucer
Author: Michael SwantonPublisher: Longman Publishing Group
ISBN: 9780582492417
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
I. Titles. II. Series.
English Writers
Author: Henry MorleyChaucer
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.
English Literature Before Chaucer
Author: Percy Goronwy ThomasPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
English Poetry Before Chaucer
Author: Michael SwantonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
A new and completely revised edition of this authoritative work, intended to encourage personal appreciation and independent appraisal by students of English. This is a stimulating introduction to the poetry composed in an age that witnessed fundamental cultural developments: the emergence of the English from among the warring tribes of Europe, their conversion to Christianity, the development of feudalism and the chivalric myth, the military adventure of the Crusades, and the growth of a vigorous citizen class in the burgeoning towns of England.
Chaucer to Wordsworth. A short history of English literature, from the earliest times to the present day
Author: Thomas ArnoldAn Outline History of English Literature
Author: William Henry HudsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
English Literature in the Age of Chaucer
Author: Dieter MehlPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317871553
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
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.
An Introduction to Geoffrey Chaucer
Author: Tison PughPublisher: University Press of Florida
ISBN: 0813048354
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Geoffrey Chaucer is widely considered the father of English literature. This introduction begins with a review of his life and the cultural milieu of fourteenth-century England and then expands into analyses of such major works as The Parliament of Fowls, Troilus and Criseyde, and, of course, the Canterbury Tales, examining them alongside a selection of lesser known verses.