[Gutenberg 36554] • Chaucer and His Times
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- Authors
- Hadow, Grace E.
- Tags
- england -- civilization -- 1066-1485 , poets , 1100-1500 -- biography , chaucer , english -- middle english , geoffrey , -1400
- Date
- 1970-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.18 MB
- Lang
- en
1914\. A biography of Chaucer who is remembered as the author of The Canterbury Tales, which ranks as one of the greatest epic works of world literature. Chaucer made a crucial contribution to English literature in using English at a time when much court poetry was still written in Anglo-Norman or Latin. Contents: Chaucer's Life and Times; Chaucer's Works; Chaucer's Treatment of His Sources; Chaucer's Character-Drawing; Chaucer's Humour; Chaucer's Descriptive Power; Some Views of Chaucer's on Men and Things; and Chaucer's Influence.