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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/232189589 Title: The life and times of Chaucer Author: John Gardner Publisher: New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1976. ISBN/ISSN: 0394493176 9780394493176 OCLC:232189589

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The life and times of Chaucer

Author:	John Gardner
Publisher:	New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1976.
Edition/Format:	Print book : Biography : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
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Subjects	Chaucer, Geoffrey, -- -1400 -- Biography. Chaucer, Geoffrey, -- -1400.
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Genre/Form:	Biographies Biography
Named Person:	Geoffrey Chaucer; Geoffrey Chaucer
Material Type:	Biography
Document Type:	Book
All Authors / Contributors:	John Gardner Find more information about:
ISBN:	0394493176 9780394493176
OCLC Number:	232189589
Description:	ix, 328 pages, x ; 25 cm
Contents:	1. Chaucer's ancestry and some remarks on fourteenth-century English history -- 2. Chaucer's youth and early education : life and the specter of death on the Ringing Isle (c.1340-1357) -- 3. Chaucer as young courtier, soldier, and, in some sense, lover (1357-1360) -- 4. Chaucer's further education, a summary of some fourteenth-century ideas of great importance to Chaucer, and the poet's marriage to Philippa Roet : speculations and scurrilous gossip (1360-1367) -- 5. Significant moments and influences : Pedro the Cruel, two deaths, that shameless woman and wanton harlot Alice Perrers, and Italian artistic humanism (1367-1373) -- 6. Chaucer's adventures as celebrated poet, civil servant, and diplomat in the declining years of King Edward III (1374-1377), with some remarks on Chaucer's honesty and comments on his art -- 7. Life during the minority of Richard II : the peasants' revolt and its aftermath (1377-c.1385), with more scurrilous gossip -- 8. The rise of Gloucester, and Chaucer's fortunes as a Royalist in evil times -- 9. The deaths of Gloucester, John of Gaunt, and the hero of this book
Responsibility:	John Gardner.

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