The Last Months of Chaucer's Earliest Patron
Author: Albert Stanburrough Cook
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Published: 1916
Total Pages: 172
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Published: 1916
Total Pages: 172
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher: DigiCat
Published: 2022-08-10
Total Pages: 50
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Book of the Duchess is a surreal poem that was presumably written as an elegy for Blanche, Duchess of Lancaster's (the wife of Geoffrey Chaucer's patron, the royal Duke of Lancaster, John of Gaunt) death in 1368 or 1369. The poem was written a few years after the event and is widely regarded as flattering to both the Duke and the Duchess. It has 1334 lines and is written in octosyllabic rhyming couplets.
Author: Stephen Krensky
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2009-10-06
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 1416990267
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Chaucer knows bears are supposed to sleep through the winter, but he doesn't want to miss all the fun. This sweet picture book celebrates winter and friendship. Full color.
Author: Marion Turner
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2020-09-22
Total Pages: 626
ISBN-13: 0691210152
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"More than any other canonical English writer, Geoffrey Chaucer lived and worked at the centre of political life--yet his poems are anything but conventional. Edgy, complicated, and often dark, they reflect a conflicted world, and their astonishing diversity and innovative language earned Chaucer renown as the father of English literature. Marion Turner, however, reveals him as a great European writer and thinker. To understand his accomplishment, she reconstructs in unprecedented detail the cosmopolitan world of Chaucer's adventurous life, focusing on the places and spaces that fired his imagination. Uncovering important new information about Chaucer's travels, private life, and the early circulation of his writings, this innovative biography documents a series of vivid episodes, moving from the commercial wharves of London to the frescoed chapels of Florence and the kingdom of Navarre, where Christians, Muslims, and Jews lived side by side. The narrative recounts Chaucer's experiences as a prisoner of war in France, as a father visiting his daughter's nunnery, as a member of a chaotic Parliament, and as a diplomat in Milan, where he encountered the writings of Dante and Boccaccio. At the same time, the book offers a comprehensive exploration of Chaucer's writings, taking the reader to the Troy of Troilus and Criseyde, the gardens of the dream visions, and the peripheries and thresholds of The Canterbury Tales. By exploring the places Chaucer visited, the buildings he inhabited, the books he read, and the art and objects he saw, this landmark biography tells the extraordinary story of how a wine merchant's son became the poet of The Canterbury Tales." -- Publisher's description.
Author: Albert Stanburrough Cook
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Published: 1920
Total Pages: 470
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Published: 1920
Total Pages: 446
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Vol. 15, "To the University of Leipzig on the occasion of the five hundredth anniversary of its foundation, from Yale University and the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1909."
Author: Kenneth Scott Latourette
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Published: 1917
Total Pages: 492
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