The Complete Poetry and Prose of Geoffrey Chaucer
Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher:
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 1040
ISBN-13: 9780030286544
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher:
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 1040
ISBN-13: 9780030286544
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780838457085
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Canterbury Tales has succeeded in cementing a place as one of the earliest masterpieces of English literature. Including plates from the celebrated Kelmscott Chaucer.
Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher: Cosimo, Inc.
Published: 2008-11-30
Total Pages: 550
ISBN-13: 1605205257
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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 V features Skeat s extensive notes on The Canterbury Tales.
Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher: Collector's Library
Published: 2011-09
Total Pages: 576
ISBN-13: 9781907360510
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Kelmscott Chaucer is the most memorable and beautiful edition of the complete works of the first great English poet. Next to The Gutenberg Bible, it is considered the outstanding typographic achievement of all time. There are 87 full-page illustrations by Sir Edward Burne-Jones, and the borders, decorations and initials are drawn byWilliam Morris himself. Only 425 copies of this magnificent work were produced in 1896, and this beautiful monochrome facsimile, slightly smaller than the original, makes this glorious book available to all. A fascinating Introduction by Nicholas Barker places the book and its importance in context. The main text is followed by a black and white facsimile of ANoteby William Morris on his Aims in Founding the Kelmscott Press, together with a Short History of the Press by S C Cockerell.