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Chaucer in the Eighteenth Century - The Father of English Poetry (Hardcover)
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Chaucer in the Eighteenth Century - The Father of English Poetry (Hardcover)
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This volume is a study of how the poetry of Chaucer continued to
give pleasure in the eighteenth century despite the immense
linguistic, literary, and cultural shifts that had occurred in the
intervening centuries. It explores translations and imitations of
Chaucer's work by Dryden, Pope, and other poets (including Samuel
Cobb, John Dart, Christopher Smart, Jane Brereton, William
Wordsworth, and Leigh Hunt) from the early eighteenth to the early
nineteenth centuries, as well as investigating the beginnings of
modern Chaucer editing and biography. It pays particular attention
to critical responses to Chaucer by Dryden and the brothers Warton,
and includes a chapter on the oblique presence of Chaucer in Samuel
Johnson's Dictionary. It explores the ways in which Chaucer's
poetry (including several works now known not to be by him) was
described, refashioned, reimagined, and understood several
centuries after its initial appearance. It also documents the way
that views of Chaucer's own character were inferred from his work.
The book combines detailed discussion of particular critical and
poetic texts, many of them unfamiliar to modern readers, with
larger suggestions about the ways in which poetry of the past is
received in the future.
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