- Taschenbuch: 676 Seiten
- Verlag: Ballantine Books; Auflage: Reprint (11. Februar 1989)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0449903419
- ISBN-13: 978-0449903414
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 15,2 x 3,8 x 22,9 cm
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 1.443.753 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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From Library Journal
This exceptionally clear, comprehensive, and well-written book vividly portrays both the public context (14th-century England, Italy, and France) and the family life of the early giant of English poetry. It easily surpasses not only Marchette Chute's outdated Geoffrey Chaucer of England (1946) but also John Gardner's The Life and Times of Chaucer (1977) and Derek Brewer's Chaucer and His World (1978). Accessible to the general reader while useful to the scholar, the book offers informative interpretations of Chaucer's works and literary genius. Highly recommended. Carolyn M. Craft, Longwood Coll., Farmville, Va.
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Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
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YA Howard has assembled the schol arly research of Chaucer experts, giv ing readers, in one source, the best, or at least the consensus. He presents lit tle new in the way of research, although his book is filled with speculation and filling in between the lines. For this rea son, and for others, this book is a fine vehicle for students who wish to learn of Chaucer and his environment. How ard takes readers through Chaucer's life, telling them of the odd and the ev eryday. Students who wish to research Chaucerian ideas will be better served by going to the original sources, and to more current ones. For those who wish to get an overall impression, Howard's book is the answer, for he brings Chau cer to life, and causes readers to see the man. George F. Hawkins, Episcopal High School, Bellaire
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Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
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comprehensive biography
8. Februar 2003
Format:Taschenbuch
Extensively detailed biography of this medieval great poet, of interest to anyone interested in the intricacies of medieval history and literature. Definitely not for the dilettante, though much of it is quite readable.
The book is approximately evenly divided between history and literary analysis. We learn of Chaucer's role as a soldier in the wars with France; of his role as appointed court poet and custom's officer; of the black death; of his travels to Italy; we are given a great deal of detail about his literary influences on the Continent and his major literary works, not limited to the Canterbury Tales. Really more for the literary medieval scholar, though anyone interested in history might like it. We learn that Chaucer was probably in London at the time of the Peasants' Revolt.
The book is approximately evenly divided between history and literary analysis. We learn of Chaucer's role as a soldier in the wars with France; of his role as appointed court poet and custom's officer; of the black death; of his travels to Italy; we are given a great deal of detail about his literary influences on the Continent and his major literary works, not limited to the Canterbury Tales. Really more for the literary medieval scholar, though anyone interested in history might like it. We learn that Chaucer was probably in London at the time of the Peasants' Revolt.
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An Important Introduction
2. September 2008
Format:Taschenbuch
This is an important introduction to, as the book's title says, the life, times, and works of Geoffrey Chaucer. For those who are thoroughly versed in the 14th century, or who are intimately familiar with Chaucer scholarship, this work will probably be a rehashing of familiar ground. However, as an introduction for a budding scholar or amateur enthusiast in history or literature, this work is second to none. This book is highly readable, even for those with a casual interest in the subject.
I took a class on Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales", and I read this book as a prelude to the course. I feel that this work provided me with crucial context for Chaucer and his world, and enabled me to appreciate reading the "Tales" in their original Middle English at a much greater level. Thank you Dr. Howard!
I took a class on Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales", and I read this book as a prelude to the course. I feel that this work provided me with crucial context for Chaucer and his world, and enabled me to appreciate reading the "Tales" in their original Middle English at a much greater level. Thank you Dr. Howard!
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Hard to say if what I learned from the book was worth the reading of it
4. Mai 2011
Format:Taschenbuch
If I hadn't had a Chaucer-themed event I was preparing for, I would probably not have bothered to finish this book. Some of the problem is just poor editing - but then I notice that Howard died earlier the same year the book was published, and I can see how that sort of thing could interfere with the give and take of good editing. Some of it is that the literary biography is itself a tricky genre, and has to be done just right or it ends up falling between two stools - and Howard did not get it just right. And some of it is just that Howard comes across as an old fuddy-duddy - happily contemptuous of computers and of foreign languages*, and politically pro-Richard II to a degree I've never encountered before. And I don't need an explanation of why, on a journey to Genoa, Chaucer would not experience "jet lag" (jargon-quotes in the original).
I want to give it only one or two stars. But I did learn some new things just when I needed to, so maybe a grudging three.
* "To an English ear, French and Italian when spoken sound like a machine gun.... Heaven only knows what English must sound like to a French or an Italian ear" - Heaven, or he could ask any of 60-some million French citizens or 50-some million Italians. I should think Stanford would have a Romance Language department, but maybe it didn't occur to him to walk across campus and ask.
I want to give it only one or two stars. But I did learn some new things just when I needed to, so maybe a grudging three.
* "To an English ear, French and Italian when spoken sound like a machine gun.... Heaven only knows what English must sound like to a French or an Italian ear" - Heaven, or he could ask any of 60-some million French citizens or 50-some million Italians. I should think Stanford would have a Romance Language department, but maybe it didn't occur to him to walk across campus and ask.
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