Opis: The Prologue and the Knight's Tale (Classic Reprint) - Chaucer Geoffrey

Excerpt from The Prologue and the Knight's Tale

This edition of Chaucer may perhaps seem to call for an apology. The field of Chaucer investigation has been tilled by so many eminent scholars that the labours of one who can only claim to be a lover of Chaucer are possibly superfluous. Yet any attempt to contribute to a better understanding of Chaucer's poetry may surely lay claim to indulgent consideration. For though the immediate purpose of a school edition such as this is largely practical and utilitarian, yet an increased appreciation of Chaucer in school may serve the higher end of a cultivated appreciation of a great poet's work in after-life, when our English classics are apt to be ignored in favour of books possessing a merely ephemeral interest. To speak with Charles Lamb, there is nothing to be compared with the 'fair and wholesome pasturage' of good old English reading, and perhaps even a school edition may help to foster a taste for that 'well of English undefiled,' Dan Chaucer.

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Szczegóły: The Prologue and the Knight's Tale (Classic Reprint) - Chaucer Geoffrey

Nazwa: The Prologue and the Knight's Tale (Classic Reprint)
Autor: Chaucer Geoffrey
Wydawnictwo: FB &c Ltd
Kod paskowy: 9781330308721
Języki: angielski
Ilość stron: 322
Format: 15.2x22.9cm
Oprawa: Miękka

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