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Chaucer

A European Life

Marion Turner

Chaucer

Chaucer

A European Life

Chaucer

 

ore than any other canonical English writer, Geoffrey Chaucer lived and worked at the center of political life--yet his poems are anything but conventional. Edgy, complicated, and often dark, they reflect a conflicted world, and their astonishing diversity and innovative language earned Chaucer renown as the father of English literature.


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Beschrijving Chaucer

A groundbreaking biography that recreates the cosmopolitan world in which a wine merchant's son became one of the most celebrated of all English poets More than any other canonical English writer, Geoffrey Chaucer lived and worked at the centre of political life-yet his poems are anything but conventional. Edgy, complicated, and often dark, the


ISBN
9780691160092
Pagina's
624
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Biografieën literaire auteurs
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1
Uitvoering
Hardback
Taal
Engels
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Princeton University Press