[PDF.31qw] Chaucer: The Life and Times of the First English Poet

Chaucer: The Life and Times of the First English Poet

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 | #17688006 in Books |  2001-12-10 | Format: Bargain Price | PDF # 1 | File type: PDF | 302 pages

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||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Yes, but where is Chaucer|By James Peyton|I decided to read this book because I had so little to tell about Chaucer, the man, to my senior English students other than what I could gather from the Canterbury Tales. I gave them the usual historical facts, that he was related to John of Gaunt, captured in the war and that Chaucer dislikes hypocrisy, has quite a few remarks to say|From Publishers Weekly|For the 600th anniversary of Chaucer's death, biographer West (Daniel Defoe: The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures) concentrates more on the times than the life. Chaucer's era, which encompassed the Hundred Years War, the Black Death,

The year of the millennium marks the 600th anniversary of the death of Geoffrey Chaucer. This first, and some would say greatest, poet of the English language stands before the gateway of the early modern age. He lived at a time when the elite languages of former conquerors, French and Latin, were both giving way to English - no longer just the vernacular of the common people, but increasingly the language of the court, the law and of literature. This biography charts th...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Chaucer: The Life and Times of the First English Poet   |  Richard West. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

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