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Chaucer

Chaucer - Cambridge Library Collection - English Men of Letters

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Publisher's Synopsis

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.

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Book information

ISBN: 9781108034647
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
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Language: English
Number of pages: 212
Weight: 280g
Height: 216mm
Width: 140mm
Spine width: 12mm