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
Fonte dell'immagine: Illustration from Cassell's History of England - Century Edition - published circa 1902.
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Opere di Geoffrey Chaucer
Troilus and Cressida and The Canterbury tales. With modern English versions of both works (1952) 382 copie
The Canterbury tales; the Prologue and four tales, with the Book of the duchess and six lyrics, (1930) 154 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) 44 copie
Reading Chaucer: An Interlinear Translation of Selections in The Norton Antology of English Literature (2006) 27 copie
Five Canterbury Tales: Level 1: 400-Word Vocabulary Five Canterbury Tales (Dominoes, Level One) (2010) 14 copie
Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, Vol. III: The House of Fame: The Legend of Good Women, The Treatise on the… (2008) 13 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. 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 9 copie
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 Reeve's Tale 7 copie
The Tale of the Man of lawe;: The Pardoneres tale; the Second nonnes tale; the Chanouns yemannes tale, from the… (1879) 7 copie
The Canterbury Tales: A Facsimile and Transcription of the Hengwrt Manuscript, with Variations from the Ellesmere… (1979) 7 copie
Reading & Training : Geoffrey Chaucer : The Canterbury Tales [book + sound recording] (2007) — Writer — 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 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
Två Canterbury sägner 3 copie
The Canterbury Tales With Side-By-Side Modern English Translation (Classic Retold With Side-By-Side Translation Book 1) (2015) 3 copie
El parlamento de las aves y otras visiones del sueno/ The parliament of the birds and other dream visions (Biblioteca… (2006) 3 copie
The Works 1532, With Supplementary Material from the Editions of 1542, 1561, 1598 and 1602 (1969) 3 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 of Geoffrey Chaucer, Selected and Ed. By Edwin Johnston Howard [and] Gordon Don (1947) 2 copie
The Canterbury Tales (Penguin Popular Classics) by Geoffrey Chaucer (24-Feb-2011) Paperback (1600) 2 copie
The Caterbury Tales 2 copie
The Wife of Bath: Complete, Authoritative Text With Biographical and Historical Contexts, Critical History, and Essays… (1996) 2 copie
The story of Patient Grisilde 2 copie
Chaucer's Troylus and Cryseyde (from the Harl. ms. 3943) compared with Boccaccio's Filostrato (1976) 2 copie
The Pierpont Morgan Library Manuscript M.817: A Facsimile (The Facsimile Series of the Works of Geoffrey Chaucer ; V.… (1986) 2 copie
The Shipman's Tale 2 copie
The Friar'S, Summoner'S, and Pardoner's Tales from the Canterbury Tales (Medieval and Renaissance Texts) (1975) 2 copie
Gentilesse {poem} 2 copie
Truth {poem} 2 copie
Specimen extracts from the nine known unprinted mss. of Chaucer's "Troilus" and from Caxton's and… 1 copia
The Book of the Duchess 1 copia
Canterburysägner I 1 copia
Canterburysägner II 1 copia
Prologue and Knightes Tale 1 copia
The Canterbury Tales (Selected) 1 copia
The Prioress's Tale 1 copia
The Miller's Tale 1 copia
Opowieści kanterberyjskie 1 copia
Poems By Geoffrey Chaucer 1 copia
Chaucer's Dream 1 copia
Chaucer's A.B.C. 1 copia
The Assembly of Fowls 1 copia
The Cuckoo and the Nightingale 1 copia
The Court of Love 1 copia
LOS CUENTOS DE CANTERBURY 1 copia
The Canturbury Tales 1 copia
The College Chaucer 1 copia
The Canterbury Tales I 1 copia
Canterbury Tales, A6 1 copia
Persuasion 1 copia
カンタベリ物語〈上〉 (ちくま文庫) — Autore — 1 copia
Poetical Works 1 copia
Boece 1 copia
December 1 copia
The Count of Monte Cristo; The Canterbury Tales(3); Vanity Fair (The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written) (1990) 1 copia
The Indispensable Chaucer 1 copia
Short poems 1 copia
Gríshildur góða og fleiri sögur 1 copia
CHAUCER The Pardoner's Tale 1 copia
Burlesque Plays and Poems 1 copia
Basilisk Press Kelmscott Chaucer 1 copia
Historias de Chaucer 1 copia
The Ellesmere Chaucer 1 copia
The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer, Vol. 4: With an Essay Upon His Language and Versification, an Introductory Discourse,… (2015) 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
Clásicos bruguera 1 copia
The Canterbury Tales (Book on Tape) (The Nun's Priest's Tale/ The Knight's Tale, 2 Cassettes) (1983) 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 Man of Law"s Tale, the Nun"s Priest"s Tale, the Squire"s Tale. [The King"s Classics] (1904) 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
A comprehensive list of textual comparison between Blake's and Robinson's editions of The Canterbury tales (1995) 1 copia
The Three Cuckolds. [Subtitle]: Out of Chaucer in modern prose renderingby Willis L. Parker. Privately issued for… (1932) 1 copia
Oxford Student Texts: 10 book pack (The Pardoners Tale / The Rape of Lock / The Duchess of Malfi / Keats Selected… (2010) 1 copia
The Canterbury Tales (2 cassettes) (The Prologue and the Pardoner's Prologue and Tale (Read in Middle English) (1978) 1 copia
Miller's Tale -- Prologue 1 copia
Chaucer Complete Works 1 copia
Canterbury Tales, Volume 2 1 copia
The Canterbury Tales 1 copia
The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales: The Romaunt of the Rose, and Minor Poems (Classic Reprint) (2017) 1 copia
Canterburyn kertomuksia 1 copia
A first Chaucer 1 copia
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. The Prologue. Edited with introduction and notes by Alfred W. Pollard 1 copia
The Canterbury Tales 1 copia
The Cook's Tale 1 copia
Chaucer's Canterbury tales: The squire's tale. Edited with introd. and notes by A.W. Pollard (2011) 1 copia
The Friar's Tale 1 copia
Tale Of Sir Thopas 1 copia
Chaucer's Canterbury pilgrims 1 copia
Chaucer. The prologue & ... the Prioress's tale. - The nun's priest's tale. - The pardoner's tale 1 copia
The clerk of Oxford's tale 1 copia
The Second Nun's Tale 1 copia
The Monk's Tale 1 copia
Opere correlate
The Best Poems of the English Language: From Chaucer Through Robert Frost (2004) — Collaboratore — 1,063 copie
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Collaboratore, alcune edizioni — 930 copie
The Graphic Canon, Vol. 1: From the Epic of Gilgamesh to Shakespeare to Dangerous Liaisons (2012) — Collaboratore — 283 copie
Trilogia della vita: Il Decameron, I racconti di Canterbury, Il fiore delle mille e una notte (1971) — Original book — 52 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)
Utenti
Discussioni
The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer - Shakespeare Head Press (1928) in Fine Press Forum (Domenica 9:44am)
Geoffrey Chaucer in The Green Dragon (Novembre 2023)
OT: Chaucer collection goes online in Fine Press Forum (Ottobre 2023)
Folio Archives 341: Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer – LIMITED EDITION 2011 in Folio Society Devotees (Settembre 2023)
Folio Archives 323: The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer 1990 in Folio Society Devotees (Luglio 2023)
LE Canterbury Tales in Folio Society Devotees (Giugno 2023)
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)
Recensioni
This is THE Chaucer book, it has everything plus helpful comments and annotations. I wish I had the time to read it front to back, but for now I only had the time to read some of the Tales and the Romaunt of the Rose.
Joseph Glaser's translation of Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales is wonderfully readable and entertaining. His translation makes the work easily accessible to modern readers providing a poetic rhythm and rhyme that hints of Chaucer's own poetry.
The Tales themselves range from the devout to the vulgarly humorous. Most delightful are the characters brought to life within the Tales.
The Tales themselves range from the devout to the vulgarly humorous. Most delightful are the characters brought to life within the Tales.
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edition: Broadview Editions, Second Edition, edited by Robert Boenig & Andrew Taylor (2012)
OPD: 1400
format: 503-page large paperback
acquired: April read: Dec 30, 2023 – Apr 27, 2024, time reading: 62:07, 7.4 mpp
rating: 5
genre/style: Middle English Poetry theme: Chaucer
locations: on the road from London to Canterbury
about the author: Chaucer (~1342 – October 25, 1400) was an English poet and civil servant.
Chaucer is tricky because he’s hard to read and his tales vary so much, they are hard to summarize or classify. There is a Boccaccio element to them, but it’s a very different experience. Like Boccaccio, one thing that stands out is Chaucer’s naughty stories – sex and farts and trickery, money and wealth often playing a central role. The plague also has a role. One of Chaucer's tales is about three youths who hunt for Death because he has killed so many, and tragically find what they’re looking for. But what makes Chaucer most stand out from Boccaccio are the tellers of the tales. In Boccaccio, the ten youths are all of a class and many of them blend together, hard to differentiate. Chaucer’s tale is a social mixture – good and bad, wealthy and common. They are each distinct, wonderfully distinct, so much so that they, the tellers, stand out way more in memory than the tales themselves. These characters come out in the story prologues and there is simply more creativity, more social commentary, more insight into this medieval world than anything the stories themselves can accomplish, no matter how good the stories are. The Merchant’s Tale, my favorite, includes many references and wonderful debate between Hades and Persephone, a battle of the sexes. But it doesn’t touch on the Wife of Bath’s 1000-line prologue on being a wife to five men and all the experiences and judgments and justifications within, it’s not even close. She’s the best, but the Miller comes in early, drunkenly inserting this tale of sex and fart jokes, and bringing the whole level of content down. The Miller says, "I wol now quite the Knightes tale!" The knight has just told a more proper Boccaccio-inspired tale. By "quiting", the Miller means he his giving him some payback, getting back at him. (His tale has thematic consistency, but with common characters, farts and sex.) And the Cook’s tale is so awfully improper that it hasn’t been preserved, or maybe Chaucer only wrote 50 lines. Later, the Cook will throw up and fall off his horse. The Canon’s Yeoman exposes his own canon’s alchemy and trickery, getting fired on the spot before he tells his tale. This is all quite terrific stuff in and of itself, a rowdy uncontrolled mixture of societal levels, and mostly humorous confrontations (notably in a post-plague era of social mobility).
The other thing Chaucer does that Boccaccio doesn’t do in the Decameron, is write in verse. This is special all by itself. If you have read excerpts of Chaucer, there's a fair chance that like me you have been bewildered by it. It’s a weird language, oddly drawn out, then oddly compressed, obscuring the meaning, jamming in a weird accent. It doesn't make for great quotes or easy visits. But if you get deep into it, focus hard on it, something happens. It becomes magical, inimical, and lush in sound and freedom, the random inconsistent spelling as beautiful as the random inconsistent and sometimes heavily obscured phrasing. It also becomes recognizable. The more you read it, the more sense it makes. Although I was never able to scan it. Show me a page of Chaucer, and I’m immediately lost in indecipherable letters. I have to begin to read it and find the flow before it comes to life.
I find it interesting, but not inappropriate, that when Chaucer is discussed, it’s almost always his opening lines that are quoted - Whan that Aprill with hise shoures soote/The droghte of March had perced to the roote/And bathed every veyne in swich liquor/Of which vertu engendered is the flour What’s interesting is that Chaucer really doesn’t write that beautifully anywhere else. His language is generally much tamer and less trying, the rhythm more casual.
Last year I read [Troilus and Criseyde] and was enraptured in the language. There is no question the language there is better than here. And is drawn out, as he stays with long monologues that go pages and pages, the reader lost in the rhythms. This here is just not quite like that. Yes, he gets carried away a lot. But it’s always a little jerky and bumpy. There are monologues, but these are story telling monologues, with quick-ish plots. While I liked staying in the Merchant’s Tale, the writing clearly elevated and interesting, it was not the same. But T&C is both made and limited by its singular story. The Canterbury Tales expands on its cacophony of voices. The stories for me actually fade. But the prologues leave such lush impressions, they are somehow so real, and charming and Discworld-ish, and uncontained. It’s a much more powerful thing in my head.
As many know, I read this every morning beginning with April’s shoures soote on January 1. And, with the exception of the prose tales, the Tale of Melibee and The Pardoner’s Tale, it was always the best part of my day. The same could be said for T&C last year. I’ll miss being lost in this. A really special experience, and special gift to English speakers and the language's history.
2024
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