Tolkien's lost Chaucer
Tolkien's Lost Chaucer uncovers the story of an unpublished and previously unknown book by the author of The Lord of the Rings. Tolkien worked between 1922 and 1928 on his Clarendon edition Selections from Chaucer's Poetry and Prose, and though never completed, its 160 pages of commentary reveals much of his thinking about language and storytelling when he was still at the threshold of his career as an epoch-making writer of0fantasy literature. Drawing upon other new materials such as his editi…
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- Full title :Tolkien's lost Chaucer / John M. Bowers.
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Tolkien's Lost Chaucer uncovers the story of an unpublished and previously unknown book by the author of The Lord of the Rings. Tolkien worked between 1922 and 1928 on his Clarendon edition Selections from Chaucer's Poetry and Prose, and though never completed, its 160 pages of commentary reveals much of his thinking about language and storytelling when he was still at the threshold of his career as an epoch-making writer of0fantasy literature. Drawing upon other new materials such as his edition of the Reeve's Tale and his Oxford lectures on the Pardoner's Tale, this book reveals Chaucer as a major influence upon Tolkien's literary imagination.
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- Publication Date:©2019
- Edition:First edition
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication:Oxford
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2019
The Physical Object
- Description:vii, 310 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780198842675, 0198842678
- oclc:on1085583836
- LC Classification:PR6039.O32
- Dewey Decimal:823/.912
Table of Contents
Prologue: Concerning Chaucer -- Unexpected journeys -- Four Chaucerians: Walter W. Skeat, Kenneth Sisam, George S. Gordon, C.S. Lewis -- Tolkien as editor: text and glossary -- The Chaucerian incubus: the notes -- Tolkien as a Chaucerian: The Reeve's Tale -- Chaucer in Middle-Earth -- Coda: Fathers and sons.
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