UID:
almahu_9949363123802882
Format:
400 p
,
illustrations(colour)
ISBN:
9780191953675
Series Statement:
Oxford scholarship online
Content:
This book is a study of how the poetry of Chaucer continued to give pleasure in the eighteenth century despite the immense linguistic, literary, and cultural shifts that had occurred between the fourteenth and eighteenth centuries. It investigates the full variety of responses to Chaucer from the late seventeenth century to the early nineteenth century. These include editions, biographies, and critical accounts and various kinds of translation, adaptation, and imitation. The book is primarily designed to appeal to students of eighteenth-century literature and of Chaucer, but should also be of interest to students of literary influence and reception in all periods.
Note:
Introduction -- 1 Chaucer and the Progress of Poetry -- 2 The Father of Poetry and the Father of Criticism1 -- 3 Palamon and Arcite -- 4 The Cock and the Fox -- 5 Chaucer's Characters, Chaucer's Character, and the Character of Chaucer's Verse -- 6 The True, Enlivened, Natural Way -- 7 Some Eighteenth-Century Wives of Bath -- 8 Samuel Johnson and Chaucer -- 9 Visions, Proclamations, and Courts of Love -- 10 Pathos, Chivalry, and Romance -- 11 Chaucer and The Temples of Fame -- 12 Poets and Antiquarians
Additional Edition:
Print version : ISBN 9780192862624
Language:
English
