Chaucer (Classic Reprint)
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Pollard, Alfred W.) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from Chaucer The fame of Chaucer has triumphed over many obstacles. For four out of the five centuries which have elapsed since his death his poems were so imperfectly transcribed and printed that he who hardly ever wrote a bad line, and whose music and mastery of words are almost unrivalled, was apologised for as some rude rhymer. His works were praised for their "learning," printed in black letter as an antiquarian curiosity, paraphrased and translated till he could not himself have recognised them. And yet through all this his fame survived. For in his works, as nowhere else, men found the colour and life of an earlier day. He stands at the close of the Middle Ages and interprets them for us in all their complexity. He shows us their ideals and their practice, their religion and their perplexities: chivalry and satire, cynicism and simplicity meet together in his verse. Yet a greater gift he has given us, a gallery of portraits, more numerous and more vividly sketched than can be found in any other writer of English, save only Shakspere and Scott. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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