Author: Chaucer Society (London, England)
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Languages : en
Pages : 778

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Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
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Category : Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages
Languages : en
Pages : 798

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Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
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Languages : en
Pages : 776

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Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Category : Associations, institutions, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 584

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Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
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Languages : en
Pages : 650

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Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher: Cosimo, Inc.
ISBN: 1605205176
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 638

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It is impossible to overstate the importance of English poet GEOFFREY CHAUCER (c. 1343 c. 1400) to the development of literature in the English language. His writings which were popular during his own lifetime with the nobility as well as with the increasingly literate merchant class marked the first celebration of the English vernacular as a tongue worthy of literary endeavor, most notably in his unfinished narrative poem The Canterbury Tales, the format and structure of which continues to be imitated by writers today. But the impact of Chaucer s work was felt even into the 16th and 17th centuries, when the first major collections of his writings set a high standard for how authors should be presented to the reading public. This widely esteemed seven-volume set first published in the 1890s by British academic WALTER WILLIAM SKEAT (1835 1912), Erlington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Cambridge University is based solely on Chaucer s original manuscripts and the earliest available published works (with any significant variations or deviations between versions highlighted in the extensive notes), and comes complete with Skeat s informative commentary on many passages. Volume I features a detailed life of Chaucer; a complete list of Chaucer s works; The Romaunt of the Rose, a translation of a popular and controversial French poem of courtly love typically attributed to Chaucer; and minor poems including: The Book of the Duchesse The Compleynt of Mars The Parlement of Foules A Compleint to His Lady Merciles Beaut proverbs of Chaucer and others.

Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
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Languages : en
Pages : 640

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Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 642

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Languages : en
Pages : 574

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Author: M.C. Seymour
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351962833
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 351

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This second volume, which completes the first comprehensive catalogue of Chaucer's manuscripts, describes the 56 extant copies and the fragments of 8 otherwise lost copies of the Canterbury Tales. These manuscripts, last examined together over 50 years ago, are here described after a fresh appraisal and in the light of modern scholarship, and some revisions of date, decoration, dialect, location, provenance, and script are suggested. The Introduction defines some of the major textual problems posed by the manuscripts and presents some thoughts thereon, while suggesting solutions to some incidental cruces. The Indices and Appendices record the citation of lost and unidentified copies of the Canterbury Tales, the names of former owners and associates, and addenda et corrigenda for Volume I. The Catalogue is designed as a reference work for those teachers and students who wish to know what and where the extant material is without the labour of its collection and for those able in the various specialities of manuscript bibliography to advance present knowledge.