Chaucer for Children. A golden key. By Mrs. H. R. Haweis. [Selections from the Canterbury Tales connected by prose narrative, and five minor poems. ... English.] Illustrated ... by the author. - Softcover

Chaucer, Geoffrey; Haweis, Mary

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1241235384 ISBN 13: 9781241235383

Publisher: British Library, Historical Print Editions, 2011

Synopsis

Title: Chaucer for Children. A golden key. By Mrs. H. R. Haweis. [Selections from the Canterbury Tales connected by prose narrative, and five minor poems. With a metrical version in modern English.] Illustrated ... by the author.

Publisher: British Library, Historical Print Editions

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Chaucer, Geoffrey; Haweis, Mary;
1877.
xiv. 112 p. ; 4º.
11651.i.1.

About this title

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: British Library, Historical Print Editions
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1241235384
• ISBN 13: 9781241235383
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 178