Chaucer
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
English Men of Letters 39 Volume Set
ISBN-10
1108034640
ISBN-13
9781108034647
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Nov 24th, 2011
Print length
212 Pages
Weight
288 grams
Dimensions
13.80 x 21.60 x 1.60 cms
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This biography of the 'father of English poetry' was first published in 1879. Its author, Sir Adolphus William Ward, emphasised the archival sources from which information on Chaucer the man, the civil servant and the courtier could be drawn, placing the life in the context of the times.
This biography of Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340–1400) was published in the first series of English Men of Letters in 1879. Its author, Sir Adolphus William Ward (1837–1924), a prominent scholar who became President of the British Academy, wrote on English literature from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries, translated Curtius' History of Greece, and was a historian of both Britain and Germany. He approached the task of writing Chaucer's life as a historian rather than as a literary critic, emphasising the archival sources from which information on Chaucer the man, the civil servant and the courtier could be drawn, and placing the life very much in the context of the times. An epilogue discusses the legacy of the 'father of English poetry' to the poets and dramatists of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and the renewal of interest in Chaucer's works in the nineteenth century.
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