Complete Works of Geoffrey ChaucerCosimo, Inc., 1 janv. 2008 - 636 pages 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. |
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Page xvi
... Envoy to Scogan , 35-42 , written probably in 1393 ; and still earlier , probably in 1385 , Gower speaks , in the epilogue to the former edition of his Confessio Amantis , of the ' later age ' of Chaucer , and of his ' dayes olde ...
... Envoy to Scogan , 35-42 , written probably in 1393 ; and still earlier , probably in 1385 , Gower speaks , in the epilogue to the former edition of his Confessio Amantis , of the ' later age ' of Chaucer , and of his ' dayes olde ...
Page xlii
... Envoy to Scogan and the Complaint of Venus were probably written in 1393 . According to a note written opposite 1. 45 of the former poem , Chaucer was then residing at Greenwich , a most convenient position for frequent observation of ...
... Envoy to Scogan and the Complaint of Venus were probably written in 1393 . According to a note written opposite 1. 45 of the former poem , Chaucer was then residing at Greenwich , a most convenient position for frequent observation of ...
Page xlv
... Envoy of five lines , which , like a postscript to some letters , contained the pith of the matter : - ' O conquerour of Brutes Albioun , Which that by lyne and free eleccioun Ben verray king , this song to you I sende ; And ye , that ...
... Envoy of five lines , which , like a postscript to some letters , contained the pith of the matter : - ' O conquerour of Brutes Albioun , Which that by lyne and free eleccioun Ben verray king , this song to you I sende ; And ye , that ...
Page lii
... envoy , a comptroller of customs , a clerk of works , and a member of Parliament . In the truest sense , his own works best exhibit his thoughts and character ; though we must not always accept all his expressions as if they were all ...
... envoy , a comptroller of customs , a clerk of works , and a member of Parliament . In the truest sense , his own works best exhibit his thoughts and character ; though we must not always accept all his expressions as if they were all ...
Page liv
... Envoy to Scogan , 31. His poverty , H. F. 1349 ; Envoy to Scogan , 45 ; Compl . to his Purse . Refers to the sale of wine ( his father being a vintner ) , C. T. , C 564. Is despondent in love , Compl . unto Pity ; B. D. 1-43 ; T. i . 15 ...
... Envoy to Scogan , 31. His poverty , H. F. 1349 ; Envoy to Scogan , 45 ; Compl . to his Purse . Refers to the sale of wine ( his father being a vintner ) , C. T. , C 564. Is despondent in love , Compl . unto Pity ; B. D. 1-43 ; T. i . 15 ...
Table des matières
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lxii | |
4 | |
31 | |
48 | |
Truth | 82 |
The Compleynt of Venus with the French original | 88 |
NOTES TO THE ROMAUNT OF THE ROSE | 237 |
20 | 262 |
164 | 329 |
272 | 345 |
417 | 458 |
452 | 476 |
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Expressions et termes fréquents
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