Tolkien on Chaucer, 1913-1959

Tolkien on Chaucer, 1913-59 traces Tolkien's career-long engagement with the works of Geoffrey Chaucer and shows how Chaucer was a major source of inspiration for all of Tolkien's creative works, most notably The Lord of the Rings.

List of contents

• Introduction


• 1: Chaucerian in Training, 1913-23


• 2: Editing Chaucer, 1924-28


• 3: The Reeve's Tale, 1928-44


• 4: Merton Professor of Chaucer, 1947-57


• 5: Middle English Losenger


• 6: The Pardoner's Tale: The Story and Its Form, 1955-56


• 7: Valedictory to Chaucer, 1959


• Coda: Tolkien on Chaucer's Retracciouns

About the author

John M. Bowers has published some twenty Chaucerian articles, and his books include Chaucer and Langland: The Antagonistic Tradition (2007) and, with Oxford University Press, Tolkien's Lost Chaucer (2019). He was a Rhodes Scholar at Merton College, Tolkien's Oxford college, and his work has been supported by NEH and Guggenheim Fellowships. He has also published a lecture series for Great Courses on The Western Literary Canon in Context.

Peter Steffensen received his BA and MA in English from Georgia State University and his PhD from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He specializes in Middle English Literature and currently teaches English at Bishop Gorman High School.

Summary

Tolkien on Chaucer, 1913-59 traces Tolkien's career-long engagement with the works of Geoffrey Chaucer and shows how Chaucer was a major source of inspiration for all of Tolkien's creative works, most notably The Lord of the Rings.

Product details

• Authors: John M. Bowers, John M. (Professor of English Bowers, Bowers John M., Peter Steffensen
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.10.2024
• EAN: 9780192848888
• ISBN: 978-0-19-284888-8
• No. of pages: 368
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: poetry and poets, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form