The Portable Chaucer: Revised Edition - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Geoffrey Chaucer, Theodore Morrison (Editor), Theodore Morrison (Translator)Series:Portable LibraryAudience:Young AdultPublish date:1977-05-26Pages:624
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780140150810ISBN-10:140150811UPC:9780140150810Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:European, Subjects & Themes, EpicBook Topic:English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, ReligiousSize:7.60 x 5.10 x 1.50 inchesWeight:1.1001Product ID:SCC3FDVCX0
The Portable Chaucer: Revised Edition
In the fourteenth century Geoffrey Chaucer, who served three kings as a customs official and special envoy, virtually invented English poetry. He did so by wedding the language of common speech to metrical verse, creating a medium that could accommodate tales of courtly romance, bawdy fabliaux, astute psychological portraiture, dramatic monologues, moral allegories, and its author's astonishing...
Series: Portable Library
Audience: Young Adult
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780140150810ISBN-10:140150811UPC:9780140150810Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:European, Subjects & Themes, EpicBook Topic:English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, ReligiousSize:7.60 x 5.10 x 1.50 inchesWeight:1.1001Product ID:SCC3FDVCX0
Geoffrey Chaucer was born in London, the son of a wine-merchant, in about 1342, and as he spent his life in royal government service his career happens to be unusually well documented. By 1357 Chaucer was a page to the wife of Prince Lionel, second son of Edward III, and it was while in the prince's service that Chaucer was ransomed when captured during the English campaign in France in 1359-60....
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
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Revised Edition
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Geoffrey Chaucer, Theodore Morrison (Editor), Theodore Morrison (Translator)
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