Chaucer and Fifteenth-Century Verse and Prose

Klappentext Aims to study the age of Chaucer and the events that shaped his career, and to show how the age made the poet. It also pays considerable attention to the precise poetic means Chaucer used to produce his effects. Zusammenfassung Part of the complete reissue of "The Oxford History of English Literature"! this volume reassesses the work of England's greatest medieval author and attempts to survey the 15th century in the light of modern scholarship.

Product details

• Authors: H S Bennett, H. S. Bennett, Bennett H. S.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.03.1990
• EAN: 9780198122296
• ISBN: 978-0-19-812229-6
• No. of pages: 356
• Series: Oxford History of English Literature; Oxford History of English Lite; Oxford History of English Lite; Oxford History of English Literature
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval, LITERARY CRITICISM / Reference, Reference works, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, c 1000 CE to c 1500, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, c 1500 to c 1600, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval