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The Portable Chaucer: Revised Edition Paperback - 1977
by Geoffrey Chaucer; Theodore Morrison (Editor); Theodore Morrison (Translator)
Summary
In the fourteenth century Geoffrey Chaucer, who served three kings as a customs official and special envoy, virtually invented English poetry. He did so by wedding the language of common speech to metrical verse, creating a medium that could accommodate tales of courtly romance, bawdy fabliaux, astute psychological portraiture, dramatic monologues, moral allegories, and its author’s astonishing learning in fields from philosophy to medicine and astrology. Chaucer’s accomplishment is unequalled by any poet before Shakespeare andin The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Cressidaranks with that of the great English novelists.
Both The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Cressida are presented complete in this anthology, in fresh modern translations by Theodore Morrison that convey both the gravity and gaiety of the Middle English originals. The Portable Chaucer also contains selections from The Book of Duchess, The House of Fame, The Bird's Parliament, and The Legend of Good Women, together with short poems. Morrison's introduction is vital for its insights into Chaucer as man and artist, and as a product of the Middle Ages whose shrewdness, humor, and compassion have a wonderfully contemporary ring.
Both The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Cressida are presented complete in this anthology, in fresh modern translations by Theodore Morrison that convey both the gravity and gaiety of the Middle English originals. The Portable Chaucer also contains selections from The Book of Duchess, The House of Fame, The Bird's Parliament, and The Legend of Good Women, together with short poems. Morrison's introduction is vital for its insights into Chaucer as man and artist, and as a product of the Middle Ages whose shrewdness, humor, and compassion have a wonderfully contemporary ring.
First line
As soon as April pierces to the root
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- Title The Portable Chaucer: Revised Edition
- Author Geoffrey Chaucer; Theodore Morrison (Editor); Theodore Morrison (Translator)
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Revised
- Pages 624
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Group, New York
- Date May 26, 1977
- Features Bibliography
- ISBN 9780140150810 / 0140150811
- Weight 1.1 lbs (0.50 kg)
- Dimensions 7.6 x 5.1 x 1.5 in (19.30 x 12.95 x 3.81 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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Themes
- Cultural Region: British
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 77001097
- Dewey Decimal Code 821.1
Media reviews
“The most successful translations of Chaucer’s poetry that I have ever seen.”—Chicago Tribune
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