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Chargement... Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, Vol. VII: Chaucerian and Other Pieces, Being A Supplement to the Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer (in seven volumes)par Geoffrey Chaucer
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It is impossible to overstate the importance of English poet GEOFFREY CHAUCER (c. 1343-c. 1400) to the development of literature in the English language. His writings--which were popular during his own lifetime with the nobility as well as with the increasingly literate merchant class--marked the first celebration of the English vernacular as a tongue worthy of literary endeavor, most notably in his unfinished narrative poem The Canterbury Tales, the format and structure of which continues to be imitated by writers today. But the impact of Chaucer's work was felt even into the 16th and 17th centuries, when the first major collections of his writings set a high standard for how authors should be presented to the reading public. This widely esteemed seven-volume set--first published in the 1890s by British academic WALTER WILLIAM SKEAT (1835-1912), Erlington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Cambridge University--is based solely on Chaucer's original manuscripts and the earliest available published works (with any significant variations or deviations between versions highlighted in the extensive notes), and comes complete with Skeat's informative commentary on many passages. Volume VII features works generally appended to collections of Chaucer's work, and sometimes attributed to him, including: - Thomas Usk: "The Testament of Love" - "The Plowmans Tale" - "Jack Upland" - John Gower: "The Praise of Peace" - Thomas Hoccleve: "The Letter of Cupid" - John Lydgate: "The Complaint of the Black Knight" - Sir Richard Ros: "A Balade: Warning Men to Beware of Deceitful Women" - and more. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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The glossary is flawless. Useful notes and introductions, if sometimes old fashioned. It’s often worth googling particular pieces. In some cases Skeat appears to have been the first person to look seriously at them. If he begins a sentence with “There can be no doubt that” then you can sure that modern research completely contradicts him.
I think he must have been quite mad. You’d have to a bit mad to go around editing this kind of thing, but Skeat clearly was a cut above the rest and some of the comments he makes in the intros are very entertaining. He’s also made some astounding editorial choices. For example to The Testament of Love. This was written in the 1380s. When it was printed in 1532 the spelling was modernised to Tudor standards. Then some muppet lost the manuscript. It seems to me quite self evident that you print the text you have while correcting any errors. He’s gone through and changed the spelling to what he thinks Usk would have written. Just gobsmacking. It doesn’t affect me so much as I’m just reading for pleasure, but it essentially makes the volume useless for students. I think everything in here has since been re-edited in a sane and orderly fashion. I hardly want to knock off a star for this as it’s such an insight into the Victorian mindset: the toe-curling certainly that if an idea occurred to them then it must be right. (