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Zusatztext Chaucer in the Eighteenth Century is an important, even essential, book. Informationen zum Autor David Hopkins read Classics and English at Cambridge and wrote his PhD (on 'Dryden's Translations from Ovid') at the University of Leicester. He taught in the English Department at the University of Bristol from 1977, eventually becoming a Professor (now Emeritus) of English Literature. Most of his published work has been concerned with English poetry and literary criticism of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and with the relations between English poetry and the Greek and Roman Classics. He is the author of books on Milton and Dryden, and co-editor of Dryden's poems and of the five-volume Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature.Tom Mason read English at Oxford and wrote his PhD at Cambridge. He taught in the English Department at the University of Bristol from 1978. Most of his published work has been concerned with English poetry and literary criticism of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Klappentext Examines how the poetry of Chaucer continued to give pleasure in the eighteenth century despite the immense linguistic, literary, and cultural shifts that had occurred between the fourteenth and eighteenth centuries. Zusammenfassung Examines how the poetry of Chaucer continued to give pleasure in the eighteenth century despite the immense linguistic, literary, and cultural shifts that had occurred between the fourteenth and eighteenth centuries. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Introduction Part One: Chaucer in 1700 1: Chaucer and the Progress of Poetry: The Seventeenth-century Bequest 2: The Father of Poetry and The Father of Criticism: Chaucer Renewed? 3: Palamon and Arcite: Archaism, Anachronism, Heroic Fortitude, and Uncaring Gods 4: The Cock and the Fox: Apologues, Amplification, and Embellishments Part Two: Comic and Naturalistic Tales 5: Chaucer's Characters, the Character of Chaucer, and the Character of Chaucer's Verse 6: The True, Enlivened, Natural: The Monk and The Merchant's Wife, January and May, Phoebus and the Crow, The Carpenter of Oxford, and The Miller of Trumpington 7: Some Eighteenth-Century Wives of Bath 8: Samuel Johnson and Chaucer: 'The First of our Versifyers Who Wrote Poetically' Part Three: Gothic, Romantic, and Visionary Poems 9: Visions, Proclamations, and Courts of Love 10: Pathos, Realism, and Romance: Chaucer and the Brothers Warton 11: Chaucer and the Temples of Fame 12: Poets and Antiquarians: The Eighteenth-Century Bequest ...
