Browse by author

Chaucer Geoffrey

The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems



List Price: $0.00

Description

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.
This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.
The Canterbury Tales (original-spelling Middle English edition) (Penguin Classics)

Penguin Classics

List Price: $20.00
Price: $11.35
You Save: $8.65 (43%)

Description

At the Tabard Inn in Southwark, a jovial group of pilgrims assembles, including an unscrupulous Pardoner, a noble-minded Knight, a ribald Miller, the lusty Wife of Bath, and Chaucer himself. As they set out on their journey towards the shrine of Thomas a Becket in Canterbury, each character agrees to tell a tale. The twenty-four tales that follow are by turns learned, fantastic, pious, melancholy and lewd, and together offer an unrivalled glimpse into the mind and spirit of medieval England.
The Canterbury Tales (Oxford World's Classics)

Oxford University Press, USA

List Price: $8.95
Price: $4.20
You Save: $4.75 (53%)

Description

David Wright's new translation of The Canterbury Tales into modern verse--the first to appear in over thirty years--makes one of the greatest works of English literature accessible to all readers while preserving the wit and vivacity of Chaucer's original text.

About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Dream Visions and Other Poems (Norton Critical Editions)

W. W. Norton & Company

Price: $13.11

Description

This Norton Critical Edition presents Chaucer’s four dream visions and selected shorter poems and is suitable for both beginning and advanced students.

The texts are extensively glossed and are accompanied by individual introductions and explanatory annotations. A lightly regularized system of spellings has been adopted. No prior knowledge of Chaucer is assumed.

“Contexts” connects the poems to their classical and medieval foundations and includes works by Virgil, Ovid, Cicero, Boethius, Dante, and Boccaccio, among others.

From the wealth of scholarly work available, the editor has chosen for “Criticism” six essays that address the poems’ central themes. Contributors include Charles Muscatine, A. C. Spearing, R. T. Lenaghan, Richard Firth Green, Elaine Tuttle Hansen, and Steven Kruger.

A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.
The Canterbury Tales (Norton Critical Editions)

W. W. Norton & Company

Price: $13.68

Description

This Norton Critical Edition includes the most admired of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales.

Each is presented in the original language, with normalized spelling and substantial annotations for modern readers. Among the new added to the Second Edition are the much-requested "Merchant’s Tale" and the "Tale of Sir Thopas." "Sources and Backgrounds" are included for the General Prologue and for most of the tales, enabling students to understand The Canterbury Tales in light of relevant medieval ideas and attitudes and inviting comparison between Chaucer’s work and his sources. "Criticism" includes nine essays, four of them new to this edition, by leading Chaucerians, among them F. R. H. DuBoulay, E. Talbot Donaldson, Barbara Nolani, and Lee Patterson. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.
The Canterbury Tales (Modern Library Classics)

Modern Library

List Price: $17.00
Price: $7.00
You Save: $10.00 (59%)

Description

Beyond its importance as a literary work of unvarnished genius, Geoffrey Chaucer’s unfinished epic poem is also one of the most beloved works in the English language–and for good reason: It is lively, absorbing, perceptive, and outrageously funny. But despite the brilliance of Chaucer’s work, the continual evolution of our language has rendered his words unfamiliar to many of us. Esteemed poet, translator, and scholar Burton Raffel’s magnificent new unabridged translation brings Chaucer’s poetry back to life, ensuring that none of the original’s wit, wisdom, or humanity is lost to the modern reader. This Modern Library edition also features an Introduction by the widely influential medievalist and author John Miles Foley that discusses Chaucer’s work as well as his life and times.

Chaucer Geoffrey News




Poetry took a back seat as storm clouds hit dreaming spires - Aberdeen Press and Journal
Aberdeen Press and Journal, UK - Feb 11, 3745
Poetry took a back seat as storm clouds hit dreaming spiresThe only poet I can think of that I owe a debt of gratitude to is Geoffrey Chaucer. Thanks to him, I was in great demand at the boarding school I attended. As his Canterbury Tales were on the A-level syllabus I was studying, I was able to decipher some

CCVS stages Canterbury Tales - Standard Freeholder
Standard Freeholder, Canada - Feb 11, 6229
CCVS stages Canterbury TalesThe Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer's collection of rather bawdy stories from the 14th century, will be transposed into the hippy era of 1960s Woodstock by Cornwall Collegiate and Vocational School students, June 2-5. Show tickets are $8,

Middle Ages not so dark for women - Waterloo Record
Waterloo Record, Canada - Feb 11, 6062
Middle Ages not so dark for womenAnd there are some wonderful stories, including one by the great English author Geoffrey Chaucer. In The Clerk's Tale, part of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, a woman named Grisilde has an "awful husband" who tries to dominate her. But she prevails.

Off the Shelf: How Chaucer Gives Ye Goode Tymes - Phoenixville News
Phoenixville News, PA - May 22, 2009
Off the Shelf: How Chaucer Gives Ye Goode TymesBy Paul Oliver Book Review: The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. A New Translation by Burton Raffel. The Modern Library. Hardcover. $36. I'm going to take you back. For some of you it will be way back in the days of 39 cent hamburgers.

BEHIND OUR STONE WALLS: It is a time of new awakening - Harvard Post
Harvard Post, MA - Feb 11, 682
BEHIND OUR STONE WALLS: It is a time of new awakeningThe Canterbury Tales written by Geoffrey Chaucer in the late 14th century begin with the now famous prologue. The first paragraph is about spring in “Englelond.” “Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote the droghte of March hath perced to the roote.