Screen LibraryChaucer in the eighteenth century : the father of English poetry /
This volume is a study of how the poetry of Chaucer continued to give pleasure in the eighteenth century despite the immense linguistic, literary, and cultural shifts that had occurred in the intervening centuries. It explores translations and imitations of Chaucer's work by Dryden, Pope, and o...
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Oxford University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Oxford, United Kingdom : |
| Publication Dates: | [2022] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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This volume is a study of how the poetry of Chaucer continued to give pleasure in the eighteenth century despite the immense linguistic, literary, and cultural shifts that had occurred in the intervening centuries. It explores translations and imitations of Chaucer's work by Dryden, Pope, and other poets (including Samuel Cobb, John Dart, Christopher Smart, Jane Brereton, William Wordsworth, and Leigh Hunt) from the early eighteenth to the early nineteenth centuries, as well as investigating the beginnings of modern Chaucer editing and biography. It pays particular attention to critical responses to Chaucer by Dryden and the brothers Warton, and includes a chapter on the oblique presence of Chaucer in Samuel Johnson's Dictionary. It explores the ways in which Chaucer's poetry (including several works now known not to be by him) was described, refashioned, reimagined, and understood several centuries after its initial appearance. It also documents the way that views of Chaucer's own character were inferred from his work. The book combines detailed discussion of particular critical and poetic texts, many of them unfamiliar to modern readers, with larger suggestions about the ways in which poetry of the past is received in the future. |
| Carrier Form: | xv, 435 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [411]-425) and index. |
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9780192862624 0192862626 |
| Index Number: | PR1914 |
| CLC: | I561.072 |
| Call Number: | I561.072/H793 |
| Contents: | Part I. Chaucer in 1700 -- 1. Chaucer and the progress of poetry : the seventeenth-century bequest -- 2. The father of poetry and the father of criticism : Chaucer renewed? -- 3. 'Palamon and Arcite' : archaism, anachronism, heroic fortitude, and uncaring gods -- 4. 'The Cock and the Fox' : apologues, amplification, and embellishments -- Part II. Comic and naturalistic tales -- 5. Chaucer's characters, the character of Chaucer, and the character of Chaucer's verse -- 6. The true, enlivened, natural : 'The Monk and The Merchant's Wife', 'January and May', 'Phoebus and the Crow', 'The Carpenter of Oxford', and 'The Miller of Trumpington' -- 7. Some eighteenth-century wives of Bath -- 8. Samuel Johnson and Chaucer : 'The first of our versifyers who wrote poetically' -- Part III. Gothic, romantic, and visionary poems -- 9. Visions, proclamations, and courts of love -- 10. Pathos, realism, and romance : Chaucer and the Brothers Warton -- 11. Chaucer and the Temples of Fame -- 12. Poets and antiquarians : the eighteenth-century bequest. |