Chaucer

By:

Adolphus William Ward

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Paperback / softback

Series:

English Men of Letters 39 Volume Set

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This biography of Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340–1400) was published in the first series of English Men of Letters in 1879. Its author, Sir Adolphus William Ward (1837–1924), a prominent scholar who became President of the British Academy, wrote on English literature from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries, translated Curtius' History of Greece, and was a historian of both Britain and Germany. He approached the task of writing Chaucer's life as a historian rather than as a literary critic, emphasising the archival sources from which information on Chaucer the man, the civil servant and the courtier could be drawn, and placing the life very much in the context of the times. An epilogue discusses the legacy of the 'father of English poetry' to the poets and dramatists of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and the renewal of interest in Chaucer's works in the nineteenth century.

Release date Australia

November 24th, 2011

Author

Adolphus William Ward

Audience

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly

Illustrations

Worked examples or Exercises

Pages

212

Series

English Men of Letters 39 Volume Set

Dimensions

140x216x12

ISBN-13

9781108034647

Product ID

18309082

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