Five Canterbury Tales - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Five Canterbury Tales write by Geoffrey Chaucer. This book was released on 2009-12-17. Five Canterbury Tales available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A retelling of five of Chaucer's classic tales in simplified language for new readers. Includes activities to enhance reading comprehension and improve vocabulary.
Love Visions
Love Visions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Love Visions write by Geoffrey Chaucer. This book was released on 2006-05-25. Love Visions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Spanning Chaucer's working life, these four poems build on the medieval convention of 'love visions' - poems inspired by dreams, woven into rich allegories about the rituals and emotions of courtly love. In The Book of the Duchess, the most traditional of the four, the dreamer meets a widower who has loved and lost the perfect lady, and The House of Fame describes a dream journey in which the poet meets with classical divinities. Witty, lively and playful, The Parliament of Birds details an encounter with the birds of the world in the Garden of Nature as they seek to meet their mates, while The Legend of Good Women sees Chaucer being censured by the God of Love, and seeking to make amends, for writing poems that depict unfaithful women. Together, the four create a marvellously witty, lively and humane self-portrait of the poet.
The Book of the Duchess
The Book of the Duchess - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Book of the Duchess write by Geoffrey Chaucer. This book was released on 2022-08-10. The Book of the Duchess available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Book of the Duchess is a surreal poem that was presumably written as an elegy for Blanche, Duchess of Lancaster's (the wife of Geoffrey Chaucer's patron, the royal Duke of Lancaster, John of Gaunt) death in 1368 or 1369. The poem was written a few years after the event and is widely regarded as flattering to both the Duke and the Duchess. It has 1334 lines and is written in octosyllabic rhyming couplets.
Reading Chaucer's Poems
Reading Chaucer's Poems - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reading Chaucer's Poems write by Bernard O'Donoghue. This book was released on 2015-08-18. Reading Chaucer's Poems available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Geoffrey Chaucer is rightly regarded as the Father of English Literature. His observant wit, his narrative skill and characterization, his linguistic invention, have been a well from which the language's greatest writers have drawn: Shakespeare, Pope, Austen, Dickens among them. A courtier, a trade emissary and diplomat, he fought in the Hundred Years War and was captured and ransomed; his marriage into the family of John of Gaunt ensured his influence in political society. For more than a decade, he was engaged on his most famous work of all, The Canterbury Tales, until his death around 1400; there is no record of the precise date or the circumstances of his demise, despite vivid and colourful speculation. Bernard O'Donoghue is one of the country's leading poets and medievalists. His accessible new selection includes a linking commentary on the chosen texts, together with a comprehensive line-for-line glossary that makes this the most approachable and accessible introduction to Chaucer that readers can buy.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Geoffrey Chaucer write by Dieter Mehl. This book was released on 1986-12-18. Geoffrey Chaucer available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is a lucid introduction and intelligent examination of Chaucer's narrative poetry.
