Download or read book English Literature in the Age of Chaucer written by Dieter Mehl and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Poetry of the Age of Chaucer written by A. C. Spearing and published by London : Edward Arnold. This book was released on 1974 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Prose and poetry of the age of Chaucer s XIV written by Antonio Bravo and published by Universidad de Oviedo. This book was released on 1998 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The task of the historian of language is to recreate texts as they were at a given stage of their linguistic life. The texts which follow have been selected and edited in the hope of providing means for understanding the English language of the age of Chaucer. The selection in this volume have been chosen to illustrate the history of the English language in the XIVth. Century. This anthology was conceived, at least in part, because I agree with the idea that it is in literature and in the works written by the most outstanding writers that a language displays its full power. Each selection is supplied with a brief introduction, which gives information as to the source and background necessary for understanding the text, and brief bibliography on MSS, modern editions, and language and literature criticism.

Download or read book Chaucer in context written by S. H. Rigby and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-03 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amongst the most written about works of English literature, Chaucer's Canterbury Tales still defy categorization, claims the author of this book. Was Chaucer a poet of profound religious piety or a sceptic who questioned all religious and moral certainties? Do his pilgrims reflect the society of the day, or were they a product of an already well-established literary tradition and convention? Surveying and assessing competing critical approaches to Chaucer's work, this text emphasizes a need to see Chaucer in historical context; the context of the social and political concerns of his own day.

Download or read book Chaucer and His Poetry written by George Lyman Kittredge and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Canterbury Tales written by Geoffrey Chaucer and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Poetry and Crisis in the Age of Chaucer written by Charles Muscatine and published by Notre Dame : University of Notre Dame Press. This book was released on 1972 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Poetry of the Age of Geoffrey Chaucer written by Anthony Colin Spearing and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Modern English Literature written by Edmund Gosse and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Poetry of the Age of Chaucer written by Anthony C. Spearing and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Age of Chaucer 1346 1400 written by Frederick John Snell and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Dark Chaucer written by Myra Seaman and published by punctum books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although widely beloved for its playfulness and comic sensibility, Chaucer's poetry is also subtly shot through with dark moments that open into obscure and irresolvably haunting vistas, passages into which one might fall head-first and never reach the abyssal bottom, scenes and events where everything could possibly go horribly wrong or where everything that matters seems, if even momentarily, altogether and irretrievably lost. And then sometimes, things really do go wrong. Opting to dilate rather than cordon off this darkness, this volume assembles a variety of attempts to follow such moments into their folds of blackness and horror, to chart their endless sorrows and recursive gloom, and to take depth soundings in the darker recesses of the Chaucerian lakes in order to bring back palm- or bite-sized pieces (black jewels) of bitter Chaucer that could be shared with others . . . an assortment, if you will. Not that this collection finds only emptiness and non-meaning in these caves and lakes. You never know what you will discover in the dark.Contents: Candace Barrington, "Dark Whiteness: Benjanim Brawley and Chaucer" -- Brantley L. Bryant & Alia, "Saturn's Darkness" -- Ruth Evans, "A Dark Stain and a Non-Encounter" -- Gaelan Gilbert, "Chaucerian Afterlives: Reception and Eschatology" -- Leigh Harrison, "Black Gold: The Former (and Future) Age" -- Nicola Masciandaro, "Half Dead: Parsing Cecelia" -- J. Allan Mitchell, "In the Event of the Franklin's Tale" -- Travis Neel & Andrew Richmond, "Black as the Crow" -- Hannah Priest, "Unravelling Constance" -- Lisa Schamess, "L'O de V: A Palimpsest" -- Myra Seaman, "Disconsolate Art" -- Karl Steel, "Kill Me, Save Me, Let Me Go: Custance, Virginia, Emelye" -- Elaine Treharne, "The Physician's Tale as Hagioclasm" -- Bob Valasek, "The Light has Lifted: Pandare Trickster" -- Lisa Weston, "Suffer the Little Children, or, A Rumination on the Faith of Zombies" -- Thomas White, "The Dark Is Light Enough: The Layout of the Tale of Sir Thopas." This assortment of dark morsels also features a prose-poem Preface by Gary Shipley.

Download or read book The Canterbury Tales and Other Poems written by Geoffrey Chaucer and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-09-20 with total page 809 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The Canterbury Tales and Other Poems by Geoffrey Chaucer

Download or read book The Poetry of Chaucer written by Robert Kilburn Root and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Works written by Geoffrey Chaucer and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 771 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book English Literature Before Chaucer written by Michael Swanton and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 1987 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I. Titles. II. Series.

Download or read book Love Visions written by Geoffrey Chaucer and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2006-05-25 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning Chaucer's working life, these four poems build on the medieval convention of 'love visions' - poems inspired by dreams, woven into rich allegories about the rituals and emotions of courtly love. In The Book of the Duchess, the most traditional of the four, the dreamer meets a widower who has loved and lost the perfect lady, and The House of Fame describes a dream journey in which the poet meets with classical divinities. Witty, lively and playful, The Parliament of Birds details an encounter with the birds of the world in the Garden of Nature as they seek to meet their mates, while The Legend of Good Women sees Chaucer being censured by the God of Love, and seeking to make amends, for writing poems that depict unfaithful women. Together, the four create a marvellously witty, lively and humane self-portrait of the poet.