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This book includes an introduction of Chaucer's life and times and social and literary assumptions of the age and is followed by W.W. Skeat's text of the poem with a short introduction of each of the major characters. It includes a line-by-line commentary and a glossary of obscure words.
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About the Author
Often referred to as the father of English poetry, Geoffrey Chaucer was a fourteenth-century philosopher, alchemist, astrologer, bureaucrat, diplomat, and author of many significant poems. Chaucer s writing was influential in English literary tradition, as it introduced new rhyming schemes and helped develop the vernacular traditionthe use of everyday Englishrather than the literary French and Latin, which were common in written works of the time. Chaucer s best-knownand most imitatedworks include The Canterbury Tales, Troilus and Criseyde, The Book of the Duchess, and The House of Fame.
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- PublisherPenguin Books
- Publication date1989
- ISBN 10 0140771964
- ISBN 13 9780140771961
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages192
- EditorJohn E. Cunningham
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