Chaucer and Fifteenth-Century Verse and Prose
by H. S. Bennett
Oxford History of English Literature (v. 2, pt. 1), Oxford History of English Literature. New Version (2)
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Aims to study the age of Chaucer and the events that shaped his career, and to show how the age made the poet. It also pays considerable attention to the precise poetic means Chaucer used to produce his effects. The writings of Lydgate, Hoccleve, Pecock, Fortescue, Caxton and other unknownwriters of the 15th century are also assessed. Their work covered subjects such as love, war, religion, history, medicine, travel and practical affairs. This book sums up the contribution of the 15th show more century to the body and continuity of English literature. show lessTags
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- Canonical title
- Chaucer and Fifteenth-Century Verse and Prose
- Original title
- Chaucer and the Fifteenth Century
- Original publication date
- 1947; 1954 (third printing with corrections) (third printing with corrections)
- People/Characters
- Geoffrey Chaucer; William Caxton (c.1422-1491); Jean Froissart; John Gower; Robert Henryson; Thomas Hoccleve (show all 11); William Langland; John Lydgate; John Mirk; Reginald Pecock, Bishop of Chichester; John Wycliffe
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- PREFACE
This book forms part one of Volume II of The Oxford History of English Literature, of which part two, under the title 'The Close of the Middle Ages', has already appeared (1945).
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CHAUCER AND HIS AGE
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- Nonfiction, Literature Studies and Criticism, Fiction and Literature
- DDC/MDS
- 821.17 — Literature & rhetoric English & Old English literatures English Poetry 1066-1400 Early English period, medieval period Chaucer, Geoffrey 1340–1400
- LCC
- PR255 .B43 — Language and Literature English English Literature By period Medieval. Middle English (1066-1500)
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