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Reading Chaucer's Poems - A Guided Selection (Hardcover, Main)
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Reading Chaucer's Poems - A Guided Selection (Hardcover, Main)
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Geoffrey Chaucer is rightly regarded as the Father of English
Literature. His observant wit, his narrative skill and
characterization, his linguistic invention, have been a well from
which the language's greatest writers have drawn: Shakespeare,
Pope, Austen, Dickens among them. A courtier, a trade emissary and
diplomat, he fought in the Hundred Years War and was captured and
ransomed; his marriage into the family of John of Gaunt ensured his
influence in political society. For more than a decade, he was
engaged on his most famous work of all, The Canterbury Tales, until
his death around 1400; there is no record of the precise date or
the circumstances of his demise, despite vivid and colourful
speculation. Bernard O'Donoghue is one of the country's leading
poets and medievalists. His accessible new selection includes a
linking commentary on the chosen texts, together with a
comprehensive line-for-line glossary that makes this the most
approachable and accessible introduction to Chaucer that readers
can buy.
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