The Riverside Chaucer

Posted on 23 April 2017 by Geoffrey Chaucer

NA New Read [ The Riverside Chaucer ] By [ Geoffrey Chaucer ] For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr The Franklin s Tale is the last of the thematically linked Marriage Group and apparently some critics think it is meant to be Chaucer s view on the subject marital success comes from understanding, forgiveness and hard work It s a rash promise story where in some one instead of making an outright refusal, instead promises something in case of meeting an apparently impossible set of conditions This is always a mistake, since a magician or some such always comes along and achieves said goal The Franklin s Tale is the last of the thematically linked Marriage Group and apparently some critics think it is meant to be Chaucer s view on the subject marital success comes from understanding, forgiveness and hard work It s a rash promise story where in some one instead of making an outright refusal, instead promises something in case of meeting an apparently impossible set o...English literature is downhill from Chaucer Even as a Shakespeare scholar, I would argue this, since there are several characters in Chaucer who are as if live The Wif of Bath, the Pardoner, the Host, the Canon s Yeoman,and a half dozen others, at least Shakespeare s characters, on the other hand, are all stagey, bigger thanlife, infused with the stage Or so it seems to me Chaucer s Wif even makes colloquial grammar mistakes when she self consciously describes what men like about women s bo English literature is downhill from Chaucer Even as a Shakespeare scholar, I would argue this, since there are several characters in Chaucer who are as if live The Wif of Bath, the Pardoner, the Host, the Canon s Yeoman,and a half dozen others, at least Shakespeare s characters, on the other hand, are all stagey, bigger thanlife, infused with the stage Or so it seems to me Chaucer s Wif even makes colloquial grammar mistakes when she self consciously describes what men like about women s bodies, such as hire armes smalle Chaucer is outright, laugh aloud funny, even in describing himself The Host remarks how Chaucer as a pilgrim is staring at the ground while riding shy and that he has a pot belly like the Host himself Chaucer gives himself the worst of the CT he tells a memorized tale, which the Host interrupts as he would now interrupt r...This was a read for university For what it is worth, Chaucer has a sense of humor It wasn t what I was expecting at all I could laugh at the stories, and I could also identify different moral tales from them all at the same time too You ve got to love books which are as cleverly constructed and well written as this Note I haven t read ALL the stories Some However, I had to translate it myself as well as I was am learning medieval English for university At least, how to translate and re This was a read for university For what it is worth, Chaucer has a sense of humor It wasn t what I was expecting at all I could laugh at the stories, and I could also identify different moral tales from them all at the same time too You ve got to love books which are as cleverly construct...I may be a total nerd, but devoting a semester to reading Chaucer in middle English has been one of the best academic decisions I have ever made One of Chaucer s short poems, The Book of the Duchess, written to condole Chaucer s patron John of Gaunt after he lost is beloved wife Blanche, Duchess of Lancaster, is among the most beautiful I have ever read My class began to read it a year after the death of another angel, Eve Carson, UNC student body president I m finding it difficult to put in I may be a total nerd, but devoting a semester to reading Chaucer in middle English has been one of the best academic decisions I have ever made One of Chaucer s short poems, The Book of the Duchess, written to condole Chaucer s patron John of Gaunt after he lost is beloved wife Blanche, Duchess of Lancaster, is among the most beautiful I hav...II The sore spark of peyne doth me spille This love hath eek me set in swich a placeThat my desyr he never wol fulfille For neither pitee, mercy, neither grace Can I not finde and fro my sorwful herte,For to be deed, I can hit nat arace TheI love, theshe doth me smerte Through which I see, with oute remedye,That from the deeth I may no wyse asterte For this day in hir servise shal I dye A Compleint to his Lady Geoffrey Chaucer is one of the most influential poets to ever liv II The sore spark of peyne doth me spille This love hath eek me se...Everyone goes gooey for the Tales not without reason But Troilus and Criseyde is the connoisseur s Chaucer Shorter texts are great too Most interesting thing about the Tales is how the proto bourgeois Hoost directs the entire thing to his own advantage Hoost s greatest hits include But by the croys which that Seint Eleyne fond, I wolde I hadde thy coillons in myn hond In stide of relikes or of seintuarie Lat kutte hem of, I wol thee helpe hem carie They shul be shryned in an hogges Everyone goes gooey for the Tales not without reason But Troilus and Criseyde is the connoisseur s Chaucer Shorter texts are great too Most interesting thing about the Tales is how the proto bourgeois Hoost directs the entire thing to his own advantage Hoost s greatest hits include But by the croys which that Seint Eleyne fond, I wolde I hadde thy coillons in myn hond In stide of relikes or of seintuarie Lat kutte hem of, I wol thee helpe hem carie They shul be shryned in an hogges toord Pardoner s Tale at 665 69.how friggin great is that More Namoore of this, for Goddes dignitee, Quod oure Hooste, for thou makest me So wery of thy verray lewednesse, That also wisly God my soule blesse, Min eres aken of thy drasty speche Now swich a rym the devel I biteche This may wel be rym dogerel, quod he Why so quod I, why wiltow lette me Moore of my tale than an...Chaucer is my love Middle English is ridiculously hard for us Modern English ers to read, but Chaucer is oh so worth it I bought this for my Chaucer seminar, which focused on everything but the Canterbury Tales Can I just say that everyone should read Troilus and Criseyde No one knows about it but extreme English dorks like myself P , but most scholars think it his greatest work It s wonderful, and the characters will make you SO ANGRY...The Holy Grail for Chaucerians It pleased me to no end that this was on the list of required texts for my grad level course in Chaucer because it gave me an excuse to add it to my library There are very few works of literature in the English language as diverse as The Canterbury Tales in turns deadly serious, baudy, unapologetically sexual, and meditative, this is arguably one of the greatest collection of stories ever written I ve read through The Canterbury Tales three times in their enti The Holy Grail for Chaucerians It pleased me to no end that this was on the list of required texts for my grad level cour...This book was the backbone to a Chaucer course I have recently completed This collection contains all you ll need from Chaucer s poetry, to the ever famous Canterbury Tales, andI found that although I loved the tales, Chaucer s poetry claimed a special place in my heart His work is noble and honest Critiquing of humanity and it s pitfalls, and it s beauty as well He started something in his lifetime As an educated and nobleman who was in relation wit...I remember when Professor Savoia told us this was, and I believe still is, the only complete collection of Chaucer s opus, I hurried to buy this tome, and did not think I would ever read it all, but, it looks, years on, many, to be honest, only a few minor poems still elude me.In terms of structure, there is as much as you can expect in a single volume collection of a pretty prolific poet a general introduct...

English, Middle (1100-1500)
23 April 2017

Geoffrey Chaucer