The Portable Chaucer: Revised Edition - Couverture souple

Chaucer, Geoffrey

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0140150811 ISBN 13 : 9780140150810

Editeur : Penguin Publishing Group, 1977

Synopsis

In the fourteenth century Geoffrey Chaucer, who served three kings as a customs official and special envoy, virtually invented English poetry. He did so by wedding the language of common speech to metrical verse, creating a medium that could accommodate tales of courtly romance, bawdy fabliaux, astute psychological portraiture, dramatic monologues, moral allegories, and its author’s astonishing learning in fields from philosophy to medicine and astrology. Chaucer’s accomplishment is unequalled by any poet before Shakespeare and—in The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Cressida—ranks with that of the great English novelists.
 
Both The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Cressida are presented complete in this anthology, in fresh modern translations by Theodore Morrison that convey both the gravity and gaiety of the Middle English originals. The Portable Chaucer also contains selections from The Book of Duchess, The House of Fame, The Bird's Parliament, and The Legend of Good Women, together with short poems. Morrison's introduction is vital for its insights into Chaucer as man and artist, and as a product of the Middle Ages whose shrewdness, humor, and compassion have a wonderfully contemporary ring.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Geoffrey Chaucer was born in London in about 1342. He was valued highly by Edward III, who paid part of his ransom when he was captured fighting in France in 1360. He rose in royal employment, becoming a Justice of the Peace and was buried in 1400 in Westminster Abbey.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Publishing Group
• Date d'édition: 1977
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0140150811
• ISBN 13: 9780140150810
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 624
• Éditeur: Morrison Theodore
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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