The Life of Geoffrey Chaucer

A Critical Biography

By:

Derek Pearsall

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Wiley Blackwell Critical Biographies

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This important new critical biography traces what is know of Geoffrey Chaucer's personal life while exploring the fascinating relationship between the man of affairs and the poet. He lived during a period which saw not only the deposition of Richard II in 1399 but also the emergence of a new English poetry and a brilliant, if short-lived, English cultural renaissance. Derek Pearsall shows that Chaucer's immersion in his troubled times was more intimately expressed in his work than is admitted by traditional accounts. The 'accommodations' of his public life are seen as being of a piece with the habitual irony, the studied elusiveness of a poetry, in which almost everything that could be construed as comment on contemporary events is avoided.

Author Biography:

Derek Pearsall is Gurney Professor of English at Harvard University and was Professor and Co-Director of the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of York, 1965-85. His numerous publications include John Lydgate (1970), Old English and Middle English Poetry (1977), The Canterbury Tales: A Critical Study (1985) and An Annotated Critical Bibliography of Langland (1990).

Release date Australia

November 10th, 1994

Author

Derek Pearsall

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

Pages

380

Series

Wiley Blackwell Critical Biographies

Dimensions

155x228x28

ISBN-13

9781557866653

Product ID

2701099

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