Geoffrey Chaucer (–1400)
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Geoffrey Chaucer, one of England's greatest poets, was born in London about 1340, the son of a wine merchant and deputy to the king's butler and his wife Agnes. Not much is known of Chaucer's early life and education, other than he learned to read French, Latin, and Italian. His experiences as a mostra altro civil servant and diplomat are said to have developed his fascination with people and his knowledge of English life. In 1359-1360 Chaucer traveled with King Edward III's army to France during the Hundred Years' War and was captured in Ardennes. He returned to England after the Treaty of Bretigny when the King paid his ransom. In 1366 he married Philippa Roet, one of Queen Philippa's ladies, who gave him two sons and two daughters. Chaucer remained in royal service traveling to Flanders, Italy, and Spain. These travels would all have a great influence on his work. His early writing was influenced by the French tradition of courtly love poetry, and his later work by the Italians, especially Dante, Boccaccio, and Petrarch. Chaucer wrote in Middle English, the form of English used from 1100 to about 1485. He is given the designation of the first English poet to use rhymed couplets in iambic pentameter and to compose successfully in the vernacular. Chaucer's Canterbury Tales is a collection of humorous, bawdy, and poignant stories told by a group of fictional pilgrims traveling to the shrine of St. Thomas a Becket. It is considered to be among the masterpieces of literature. His works also include The Book of the Duchess, inspired by the death of John Gaunt's first wife; House of Fame, The Parliament of Fowls, and The Legend of Good Women. Troilus and Criseyde, adapted from a love story by Boccaccio, is one of his greatest poems apart from The Canterbury Tales. Chaucer died in London on October 25, 1400. He was buried in Westminster Abbey, in what is now called Poet's Corner. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
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Opere di Geoffrey Chaucer
Troilus and Cressida and The Canterbury tales. With modern English versions of both works (1952) 368 copie
The Canterbury tales; the Prologue and four tales, with the Book of the duchess and six lyrics, (1930) 89 copie
Chaucer : the prologue, the knightes tale the nonne preestes tale from the Canterbury tales (1878) 88 copie
The Canterbury Tales: Seventeen Tales and the General Prologue (Norton Critical Editions) (2018) 41 copie
Reading Chaucer: An Interlinear Translation of Selections in The Norton Antology of English Literature (2006) 27 copie
A Variorum Edition of the Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. Volume V: The Minor Poems, Part One (1982) 13 copie
The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. Volume 3: The Canterbury Tales. From the text of Professor Skeat. (1910) 13 copie
Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, Vol. I: Romaunt of the Rose, Minor Poems (in seven volumes) (2003) 12 copie
Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, Vol. III: The House of Fame: The Legend of Good Women, The Treatise on the… (2008) 12 copie
Five Canterbury Tales: Level 1: 400-Word Vocabulary Five Canterbury Tales (Dominoes, Level One) (2010) 12 copie
Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, Vol. VII: Chaucerian and Other Pieces, Being A Supplement to the Complete Works of… (1897) 11 copie
The General Prologue & The Physician's Tale: In Middle English & In Modern Verse Translation (2006) 10 copie
The Canterbury Tales and Faerie Queene: With Other Poems of Chaucer and Spencer. Edited for Popular Perusal, with… (1874) — Autore — 9 copie
The Poems of Chaucer 8 copie
The prioresses tale, Sir Thopas, the Monkes tale, the Clerkes tale, the Squieres tale, from the Canterbury tales (2007) 8 copie
The Tale of the Man of lawe;: The Pardoneres tale; the Second nonnes tale; the Chanouns yemannes tale, from the… (1879) 7 copie
Reading & Training : Geoffrey Chaucer : The Canterbury Tales [book + sound recording] (2007) — Writer — 7 copie
The Reeve's Tale 7 copie
Chaucer 7 copie
The Canterbury Tales: A Facsimile and Transcription of the Hengwrt Manuscript, with Variations from the Ellesmere… (1979) 7 copie
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (Selected): An Interlinear Translation — Autore — 6 copie
The Canon Yeoman's Prologue and Tale: From the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer (Selected Tales from Chaucer) (1965) 6 copie
An ABC 5 copie
The Programmed Classics (13 Volume Set (Canterbury Tales, Crime & Punishment, Complete works of William Shakespeare… (1968) — Collaboratore — 4 copie
The Works 1532, With Supplementary Material from the Editions of 1542, 1561, 1598 and 1602 (1969) 4 copie
The Canterbury tales I & II 4 copie
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales: Annotated and Accented, With Illustrations of English Life in Chaucers Time (Classic… (1845) 4 copie
El parlamento de las aves y otras visiones del sueno/ The parliament of the birds and other dream visions (Biblioteca… (2006) 3 copie
Två Canterbury sägner 3 copie
The Friar'S, Summoner'S, and Pardoner's Tales from the Canterbury Tales (Medieval and Renaissance Texts) (1975) 2 copie
The Canterbury Tales (Penguin Popular Classics) by Geoffrey Chaucer (24-Feb-2011) Paperback (1600) 2 copie
The Canterbury Tales [with] The Golden Cockerel Press, The Canterbury Tales and Eric Gill, An Essay By Peter Holliday (2010) 2 copie
The Canterbury Tales With Side-By-Side Modern English Translation (Classic Retold With Side-By-Side Translation Book 1) (2015) 2 copie
Chaucer's Troylus and Cryseyde (from the Harl. ms. 3943) compared with Boccaccio's Filostrato (1976) 2 copie
Truth {poem} 2 copie
The Wife of Bath: Complete, Authoritative Text With Biographical and Historical Contexts, Critical History, and Essays… (1996) 2 copie
Gentilesse {poem} 2 copie
The story of Patient Grisilde 2 copie
The Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer, Selected and Ed. By Edwin Johnston Howard [and] Gordon Don (1947) 2 copie
The Shipman's Tale 2 copie
The Pierpont Morgan Library Manuscript M.817: A Facsimile (The Facsimile Series of the Works of Geoffrey Chaucer ; V.… (1986) 2 copie
Canterbury Tales, Volume 2 1 copia
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. The Prologue. Edited with introduction and notes by Alfred W. Pollard 1 copia
The Canturbury Tales 1 copia
A first Chaucer 1 copia
The Canterbury Tales I 1 copia
Chaucer Complete Works 1 copia
Canterbury Tales, A6 1 copia
The Indispensable Chaucer 1 copia
The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales: The Romaunt of the Rose, and Minor Poems (Classic Reprint) (2017) 1 copia
Great Books 22 1 copia
Canterburyn kertomuksia 1 copia
The Caterbury Tales 1 copia
The Ellesmere Chaucer 1 copia
Boece 1 copia
Historias de Chaucer 1 copia
Basilisk Press Kelmscott Chaucer 1 copia
The College Chaucer 1 copia
Burlesque Plays and Poems 1 copia
Gríshildur góða og fleiri sögur 1 copia
The Count of Monte Cristo; The Canterbury Tales(3); Vanity Fair (The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written) (1990) 1 copia
Short poems 1 copia
Poetical Works 1 copia
Opowieści kanterberyjskie 1 copia
CHAUCER The Pardoner's Tale 1 copia
December 1 copia
Oxford Student Texts: 10 book pack (The Pardoners Tale / The Rape of Lock / The Duchess of Malfi / Keats Selected… (2010) 1 copia
Specimen extracts from the nine known unprinted mss. of Chaucer's "Troilus" and from Caxton's and… 1 copia
A comprehensive list of textual comparison between Blake's and Robinson's editions of The Canterbury tales (1995) 1 copia
The Man of Law"s Tale, the Nun"s Priest"s Tale, the Squire"s Tale. [The King"s Classics] (1904) 1 copia
Miller's Tale -- Prologue 1 copia
The Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer: A New Text with Illustrative Notes, Volume 1 (2010) 1 copia
The Canterbury Tales (Longman Classics, Stage 2) Simplified edition by Geoffrey Chaucer (1989) Paperback (1707) 1 copia
The Friar's Tale 1 copia
Chaucer. The prologue & ... the Prioress's tale. - The nun's priest's tale. - The pardoner's tale 1 copia
The Monk's Tale 1 copia
The Second Nun's Tale 1 copia
Tale Of Sir Thopas 1 copia
The Cook's Tale 1 copia
The Canterbury Tales (Book on Tape) (The Nun's Priest's Tale/ The Knight's Tale, 2 Cassettes) (1983) 1 copia
Clásicos bruguera 1 copia
Chaucer's Canterbury tales: The squire's tale. Edited with introd. and notes by A.W. Pollard (2011) 1 copia
Chaucer's Canterbury pilgrims 1 copia
The clerk of Oxford's tale 1 copia
The Three Cuckolds. [Subtitle]: Out of Chaucer in modern prose renderingby Willis L. Parker. Privately issued for… (1932) 1 copia
The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer, Vol. 4: With an Essay Upon His Language and Versification, an Introductory Discourse,… (2015) 1 copia
The Canterbury Tales (2 cassettes) (The Prologue and the Pardoner's Prologue and Tale (Read in Middle English) (1978) 1 copia
The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer, Vol. 2: To Which Are Added, an Essay on His Language and Versification, an… (2017) 1 copia
The Poetical Works of Geoff. Chaucer: The Miscellaneous Pieces from Urry'S Edition 1721 : The Canterbury Tales from… (2012) 1 copia
Troilus and Cressida and Chaucer 1 copia
Stories from Chaucer told to the children by Janet Harvey Kelman. With pictures by W. Heath Robinson (Told to the… (1906) 1 copia
Persuasion 1 copia
Opere correlate
The Best Poems of the English Language: From Chaucer Through Robert Frost (2004) — Collaboratore — 1,013 copie
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Collaboratore, alcune edizioni — 902 copie
The Graphic Canon, Vol. 1: From the Epic of Gilgamesh to Shakespeare to Dangerous Liaisons (2012) — Collaboratore — 276 copie
Out of the Best Books: An Anthology of Literature, Vol. 1: The Individual and Human Values (1964) — Collaboratore — 40 copie
Floure and the Leafe, the Assembly of Ladies, the Isle of Ladies (1990) — mis-attribution, alcune edizioni — 33 copie
Lapham's Quarterly - Lines of Work: Volume IV, Number 2, Spring 2011 (2011) — Collaboratore — 29 copie
The Graphic Canon of Crime & Mystery, Vol. 2: From Salome to Edgar Allan Poe to The Silence of the Lambs (2021) — Collaboratore — 14 copie
Oogst der tijden : keur uit de werken van schrijvers en dichters aller volken en eeuwen (1940) — Collaboratore — 10 copie
The tale of Gamelyn : from the Harleian ms. no. 7334, collated with six other mss. (1884) — Attribution, alcune edizioni — 7 copie
Chaucer's Translation of Boethius's "De Consolatione Philosphiæ." (0014) — Traduttore, alcune edizioni — 5 copie
Great Poems from Chaucer to Whitman — Collaboratore — 3 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Chaucer, Geoffrey
- Nome legale
- Chaucer, Geoffrey
- Data di nascita
- 1340 ca.
- Data di morte
- 1400-10-25
- Luogo di sepoltura
- Abbazia di Westminster, Londra, Inghilterra
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- Europa, Gran Bretagna
- Nazione (per mappa)
- RU
- Luogo di nascita
- Londra, Gran Bretagna
- Luogo di morte
- Londra, Gran Bretagna
- Luogo di residenza
- Londres, Anglaterra (naixement)
Gatehouse, Aldgate, Londres, Anglaterra - Attività lavorative
- paggio di Elisabetta de Burgh contessa di Ulster
valletto, scudiero, diplomatico al servizio di Edoardo III
ispettore delle dogane del porto di Londra
ispettore del dazio sul vino
rappresentante della Contea del Kent nel Parlamento inglese
giudice di pace (mostra tutto 9)
sovrintendente ai lavori della Real Casa
ispettore di muri, ponti e fossati lungo il Tamigi
viceintendente forestale del parco reale di North Pethenton nel Somerset - Relazioni
- Chaucer, John (padre)
Copton, Agnes (madre)
Roet, Philippa
Chaucer, Thomas (figlio)
Chaucer, Lewis (figlio) - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Caballer de la comarca (Kent)
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Discussioni
OT: Chaucer collection goes online in Fine Press Forum (Ottobre 30)
Folio Archives 341: Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer – LIMITED EDITION 2011 in Folio Society Devotees (Settembre 25)
Folio Archives 323: The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer 1990 in Folio Society Devotees (Luglio 27)
LE Canterbury Tales in Folio Society Devotees (Giugno 9)
Kelmscott Chaucer - Easton Press vs. Bradford Exchange side by side comparison in Easton Press Collectors (Dicembre 2022)
Kelmscott Chaucer in Fine Press Forum (Novembre 2022)
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editors: James McMurrin Dean & Harriet Spiegel (2016)
OPD: 1385
format: 450-page oversized paperback with the original text and notes on the same page.
acquired: April 2022 read: (Aug 26) Sep 8 – Nov 19 time reading: 34:48, 4.6 mpp
rating: 5
genre/style: Middle English epic poetry theme: Chaucer
locations: Troy
about the author: Chaucer (~1342 – October 25, 1400) was an English poet and civil servant.
extended excerpts:
- Le Roman de Troie by Benoît de Sainte-Maure (c1160), translated from French by Robert K. Gordon (1934)
- Il Filostrato by Giovanni Boccaccio (c1340), translated from Italian by Robert K. Gordon (1934)
- The Testament of Cresseid by Robert Henryson (1532). Translated by the editors (2016)
- Metamorphoses by Ovid (7 ce), translated from Latin by Rolfe Humphries 1961
- Ars Amatoria (The Art of Love) by Ovid (3 bce), translated by Rolfe Humphries 1957
- The Consolation of Philosophy by Ancius Boethius (524), translated from Latin by Victor Watts (1969, 1999)
- On Love by Andreas Capellanus (c1190), translated from French by P.G. Walsh (1993)
- Romance of the Rose by Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun (c1230/c1275), translated from French by Charles Dahlberg (1971)
- Canzoniere Sonnet 132 by Francesco Petrarch (c1370), translated from Italian by A.S. Kline (2002)
- Commentary on Cicero's Dream of Scipio by Macrobius (c400), translated from Latin by William Harris Stahl (1952,1990,2009)
- excerpts from Lovesick in the Middle Ages: The Viaticum and Its Commentaries by Mary Wack (1990)
--- Viaticum by Constantine the African (1000s) - a Latin translation from Arabic of Zad Al Mussafir by Ibn Al Jazzar (900's)
--- Glosses on the Viaticum by Gerald of Berry (c1236), translated from Latin
--- Treatise on the Viaticum by Bona Fortuna (c1320), translated from Latin
Well. I can't possibly review this. What I can say is that this Broadview Press edition is fantastic. It has the original language with some spelling clarifications, along with notes. And Chaucer is readable enough today that that is enough information and allows the reader to enjoy the poetry, especially play of sound. I don't think Chaucer is readable without help (or extensive knowledge of the London dialect of Middle English).
Also, I really enjoyed this. It's a highlight of my year. I read it in the morning for 20 to 40 minutes and relished it, reading only six or so pages at a sitting. The plot is simple. The text is largely dialogue, one character speaking for pages at a time. I never felt in danger of getting lost and I never worried about breaking off at any point, or about pressing on until some conclusion.
Also, it's humor. I never felt the need to take anything seriously, even Chaucer's philosophical side points. This surprised me a little because everything I read about this led to me expect some deep Christian-era-friendly thoughts. This is supposed to be Chaucer's big serious effort at artistry and reputation. But this is funny, elegant and funny. And, also, it is not clean. The tone is always playful, as playful as the language.
I think the language and linguistic play is the main point here. I enjoyed this aspect so much.
The best character is Pandarus, the uncle of Criseyde and friend of Trojan prince, Troilus. He is a gamer through and through. The game is how to get his niece linked to the number one bachelor in Troy. I couldn't help imagining that Chaucer saw himself in Pandarus, but that's my impression. The character Troilus, meanwhile, is comically ridiculous. He's spineless and roiling in bed suffering from lovesickness. When Pandarus sets the world up for him, and the world is his in Book 3, he comes alive a little. He is thoroughly tragic in Book 4, and it's almost moving until we remember him in bed in back in the early books. Criseyde (maybe pronounced "Christ-eyed", but the pronunciation, based on the rhymes, seems ambiguous) is ultimately practical. She's a convincing lover, and I was left thinking I never got her right, that it was never clear where her true feelings lay. Somehow Pandarus makes the match, but he gets no benefit from it or its tragic end. The more Pandarus was present, the better Chaucer's writing was, in my opinion.
I wish I could conclude. One for the brave, thoroughly rewarding.
2023
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