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Genre/Form: | Biography Biographies History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Gardner, John, 1933-1982. Life & times of Chaucer. New York : Knopf : distributed by Random House, 1977 (OCoLC)565863696 |
Named Person: | Geoffrey Chaucer; Geoffrey Chaucer; Geoffrey Chaucer; Geoffrey Chaucer; Geoffrey Chaucer |
Material Type: | Biography |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
John Gardner; J Wolf |
ISBN: | 0394493176 9780394493176 039472500X 9780394725000 |
OCLC Number: | 2020539 |
Description: | ix, 328, x pages : illustrations ; 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. |
Other Titles: | Life and times of Chaucer |
Responsibility: | by John Gardner ; ornaments by J. Wolf. |
Abstract:
A biography of the medieval English author who wrote "The Canterbury Tales," "Troilus and Criseyde," "The Legend of Good Women," and other works.
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