Selections From Chaucer's Minor Poems: With Introductions, Notes, and a Glossary (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Bilderbeck, J. B.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1331448360 ISBN 13: 9781331448365

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from Selections From Chaucer's Minor Poems: With Introductions, Notes, and a Glossary

It has of course been necessary to punctuate the text. There is practically no punctuation in the mss. Authorities, and the early printed editions Show little more than an occasional full stop.

In a few instances in which all the authorities seem to be at fault, conjectural readings have been incorporated in the text. A marginal asterisk serves to indicate the lines in which this liberty has been taken, and, in every case, the readings of the original texts are reproduced or referred to in the foot-notes.

As there is no one authority from which all the poems here presented could have been transcribed, and as this book is intended chiefly for college students in India whose acquaintance with older English Literature is, of necessity, but slight, I have deemed it advisable to preserve some degree of uniformity in the spelling throughout.

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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.

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• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1331448360
• ISBN 13: 9781331448365
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 234