Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, Vol. V: Notes to the Canterbury Tales (in Seven Volumes) - Softcover

Chaucer, Geoffrey

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1605205249 ISBN 13: 9781605205243

Verlag: Cosimo Classics, 2008

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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 V features Skeat’s extensive notes on The Canterbury Tales.

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Geoffrey Chaucer was an English poet, courtier, diplomat, civil servant, and one of the central figures in the development of English literature. Born in the 1340s, he served in royal and administrative positions while writing poetry that drew on French, Italian, Latin, and English traditions. His work helped establish English as a major literary language at a time when much high-status writing in England still looked strongly toward Latin and French.Chaucer's major works include The Book of the Duchess, The House of Fame, The Parliament of Fowls, Troilus and Criseyde, and The Canterbury Tales. His genius lies in voice, character, irony, social range, and his ability to bring many kinds of medieval storytelling into a single lively frame. The Canterbury Tales remains his most famous work and one of the foundations of English literary history, valued for its humour, realism, poetic skill, and unforgettable portrait of a society in motion.

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• Verlag: Cosimo Classics
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1605205249
• ISBN 13: 9781605205243
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 548
• Herausgeber: Skeat Walter W.
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