Canterbury Tales
Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher :
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 41,66 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Christian pilgrms and pilgrimages
ISBN :
The Book of the Duchess
Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 18,57 MB
Release : 2022-08-10
Category : Poetry
ISBN :
Book Description
The Book of the Duchess is a surreal poem that was presumably written as an elegy for Blanche, Duchess of Lancaster's (the wife of Geoffrey Chaucer's patron, the royal Duke of Lancaster, John of Gaunt) death in 1368 or 1369. The poem was written a few years after the event and is widely regarded as flattering to both the Duke and the Duchess. It has 1334 lines and is written in octosyllabic rhyming couplets.
The Canterbury Tales
Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : Xist Publishing
Page : 963 pages
File Size : 48,17 MB
Release : 2016-03-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1681959089
Book Description
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer from Coterie Classics All Coterie Classics have been formatted for ereaders and devices and include a bonus link to the free audio book. “Then you compared a woman's love to Hell, To barren land where water will not dwell, And you compared it to a quenchless fire, The more it burns the more is its desire To burn up everything that burnt can be. You say that just as worms destroy a tree A wife destroys her husband and contrives, As husbands know, the ruin of their lives. ” ― Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales The Canterbury Tales are collection of stories by Chaucer, each attributed to a fictional medieval pilgrim.
The Riverside Chaucer
Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : American Chemical Society
Page : 1386 pages
File Size : 44,70 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages
ISBN : 0199552096
Book Description
A re-editing of F.N. Robinson's second edition of The works of Geoffrey Chaucer published in 1957 by the team of experts at the Riverside Institute who have greatly expanded the introductory material, explanatory notes, textual notes, bibliography and glossary. The result of many years' study. The Riverside Chaucer is the most authentic and exciting edition available of Chaucer's complete works.
Chaucer
Author : Donald Roy Howard
Publisher : New York : Dutton
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 11,15 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Book Description
Revered for centuries as the father of English poetry, Geoffrey Chaucer was also a central man of his age--a courtier, soldier, diplomat, public official, a man of action, and a man of the world. In this award-winning biography, Donald R. Howard recreates the public, private, and poetic life of this extraordinary man.
Canterbury Tales
Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher :
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 50,16 MB
Release : 1903
Category :
ISBN :
Book Description
The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer: Notes to the Canterbury tales
Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher :
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 48,49 MB
Release : 1900
Category : English poetry
ISBN :
Book Description
An Introduction to Geoffrey Chaucer
Author : Tison Pugh
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 12,11 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Literature, Medieval
ISBN : 9780813044248
Book Description
An overview of Chaucer's work, focusing on the most canonical texts, such as Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde, while also providing some analysis of his minor works.
The Life of Geoffrey Chaucer
Author : Derek Pearsall
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 12,42 MB
Release : 1995-01-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781557866653
Book Description
This important new critical biography traces in carefully considered detail what is known of Geoffrey Chaucer's personal life while exploring the fascinating relationship between the man of affairs, who made so many 'improvisations and accommodations' to ensure his own survival, and the poet. A major reexamination of England's greatest narrative poet, it is supplemented with reproductions of Chaucer portraits and other illustrations, including maps of medieval England.
The Knight's Tale
Author : Chaucer Geoffrey
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 23,91 MB
Release : 2022-10-27
Category :
ISBN : 9781016195515
Book Description
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