By Geoffrey Chaucer
DESCRIPTION OF ebook: comprises THE CANTERBURY stories AND THEFIVE BOOKS OF TROILUS AND CRESSIDA, AND HAS BEEN extended to incorporate better parts OF THE e-book OF THE DUCHESS AND THE BIRDS' PARLIAMENT, in addition ASTHE brief POEM "NOBILITY".
Read Online or Download The Portable Chaucer, Revised Edition (Portable Library) PDF
Best ancient & medieval literature books
The Ovidian Heroine as Author: Reading, Writing, and Community in the Heroides
Ovid's Heroides, a list of letters through girls who've been abandoned, has too often been tested as in basic terms a lament. In a brand new departure, this ebook portrays the ladies of the Heroides as a neighborhood of authors. Combining shut readings of the texts and their mythological backgrounds with severe equipment, the e-book argues that the issues of similarity among different letters of the Heroides, so usually derided via smooth critics, symbolize a super exploitation of intratextuality, within which the Ovidian heroine self-consciously models herself as an alluding writer encouraged through what she has learn in the Heroides.
Technopaignia Formspiele in der griechischen Dichtung (Mnemosyne Supplements)
Technopaignia is the 1st finished assortment and scholarly research of a corpus of literary phenomena whose particularity is composed within the creative play with formal beneficial properties (acrostics, anagrams, palindromes and so on. ). The learn either discusses each one phenomenon individually as part of the heritage of historic literature and touches upon extra basic questions about the belief of language, the interplay of literary creation and reception, the relation of literary and non-literary varieties of writing, the character of paintings and so forth.
Fiction on the Fringe: Novelistic Writing in the Post-Classical Age
This number of essays bargains a accomplished exam of texts that generally were excluded from the most corpus of the traditional Greek novel and constrained to the margins of the style, equivalent to the "Life of Aesop", the "Life of Alexander the Great", and the "Acts of the Christian Martyrs".
Anthology of classical myth : primary sources in translation
This quantity is designed as a significant other to the traditional undergraduate mythology textbooks or, while assigned along the principal Greek and Roman works, as a source-based replacement to these textbooks. as well as the whole texts of the Homeric Hymns and Hesiod's Theogony, this assortment presents beneficiant choices from over 50 texts composed among the Archaic Age and the fourth century A.
- Greek Tragedy (Yale Classical Studies Vol. 25)
- The World of Tacitus' Dialogus de Oratoribus: Aesthetics and Empire in Ancient Rome
- Tacitus: Histories, Books IV-V, Annals Books I-III (Loeb Classical Library No. 249)
- Velleius Paterculus: Compendium of Roman History; Res gestae divi Augusti (Loeb Classical Library)
Additional resources for The Portable Chaucer, Revised Edition (Portable Library)
Sample text
We have our forefathers and great-grandames all before us, as they were in Chaucer’s days; their general characters are still remaining in mankind ... ’4 No summing up is ever likely to put better than Dryden’s the qualities which have kept Chaucer alive and for which he is chiefly valued today. They are the qualities found in the best of The Canterbury Tales, in its Prologue and in the byplay of the pilgrimage itself. Dryden does not speak as though he had read Troilus and Cressida; if he did know it, his silence about its three principal characters, especially Pandarus, is remarkable.
To summarize first the more important posts that Chaucer held in the English court and public service, he is enrolled, perhaps as early as 1368, among the Esquires of the Royal Household of Edward III. It seems as though Chaucer must have exceeded the usual employments and privileges of squires, such as running errands, attending at meals, and sleeping two by two in appointed rooms. He may have been married as early as 1366, he received a life pension from Edward in 1367, and during the ensuing years he was frequently on state business abroad.
Chaucer has divided the ancient character of Hercules between his Miller and his Plowman.... The Plowman ... ” The temperament of Chaucer and the real lineaments of his Miller and his Plowman begin to disappear in such Platonizing. In the nineteenth century, at about the time when modern scholarship was beginning its elaborate recovery of Chaucer’s language and text, Chaucer’s reputation received from Matthew Arnold its most magisterial snub. Arnold contributed the general introduction to Ward’s English Poets, a historical library of selections from English poetry, taking the middle ages and Chaucer himself as a beginning point.