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Chaucer

By Adolphus William Ward

2020-02-19 23:32:15

This biography of Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340 1400) was published in the first series of English Men of Letters in 1879. Its author, Sir Adolphus William Ward (1837 1924), a prominent scholar who became President of the British Academy, wrote on Englis ... Read more
This biography of Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340 1400) was published in the first series of English Men of Letters in 1879. Its author, Sir Adolphus William Ward (1837 1924), a prominent scholar who became President of the British Academy, wrote on English literature from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries, translated Curtius' History of Greece, and was a historian of both Britain and Germany. He approached the task of writing Chaucer's life as a historian rather than as a literary critic, emphasizing the archival sources from which information on Chaucer the man, the civil servant, and the courtier could be drawn, and placing the life very much in the context of the times. An epilogue discusses the legacy of the 'father of English poetry' to the poets and dramatists of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and the renewal of interest in Chaucer's works in the nineteenth century. Less

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File size174.475 KB
Print pages236
PublisherPublic Domain Books
Publication date2010-02-04
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9781421806013
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Adolphus William Ward
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Sir Adolphus William Ward FBA (2 December 1837 in Hampstead, London – 19 June 1924) was an English historian and man of letters. He was educated in Germany and at Peterhouse, Cambridge. In 1866 W...

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