Geoffrey Chaucer (1343–1400)
Autor(a) de The Canterbury Tales
About the Author
Geoffrey Chaucer, one of England's greatest poets, was born in London about 1340, the son of a wine merchant and deputy to the king's butler and his wife Agnes. Not much is known of Chaucer's early life and education, other than he learned to read French, Latin, and Italian. His experiences as a mostrar mais civil servant and diplomat are said to have developed his fascination with people and his knowledge of English life. In 1359-1360 Chaucer traveled with King Edward III's army to France during the Hundred Years' War and was captured in Ardennes. He returned to England after the Treaty of Bretigny when the King paid his ransom. In 1366 he married Philippa Roet, one of Queen Philippa's ladies, who gave him two sons and two daughters. Chaucer remained in royal service traveling to Flanders, Italy, and Spain. These travels would all have a great influence on his work. His early writing was influenced by the French tradition of courtly love poetry, and his later work by the Italians, especially Dante, Boccaccio, and Petrarch. Chaucer wrote in Middle English, the form of English used from 1100 to about 1485. He is given the designation of the first English poet to use rhymed couplets in iambic pentameter and to compose successfully in the vernacular. Chaucer's Canterbury Tales is a collection of humorous, bawdy, and poignant stories told by a group of fictional pilgrims traveling to the shrine of St. Thomas a Becket. It is considered to be among the masterpieces of literature. His works also include The Book of the Duchess, inspired by the death of John Gaunt's first wife; House of Fame, The Parliament of Fowls, and The Legend of Good Women. Troilus and Criseyde, adapted from a love story by Boccaccio, is one of his greatest poems apart from The Canterbury Tales. Chaucer died in London on October 25, 1400. He was buried in Westminster Abbey, in what is now called Poet's Corner. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Obras por Geoffrey Chaucer
Troilus and Cressida and The Canterbury tales. With modern English versions of both works (1952) 375 exemplares
The Canterbury tales; the Prologue and four tales, with the Book of the duchess and six lyrics, (1930) 134 exemplares
Chaucer : the prologue, the knightes tale the nonne preestes tale from the Canterbury tales (1878) 88 exemplares
The Canterbury Tales: Seventeen Tales and the General Prologue (Norton Critical Editions) (2018) 43 exemplares
Canterbury Quintet : The General Prologue & Four Tales : A Reader-Friendly Edition (2000) 42 exemplares
The complete poetical works of Geoffrey Chaucer, now first put into modern English (1966) 29 exemplares
Reading Chaucer: An Interlinear Translation of Selections in The Norton Antology of English Literature (2006) 27 exemplares
The Reeve's Prologue and Tale with the Cook's Prologue and the Fragment of his Tale (1979) 18 exemplares
Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, Vol. III: The House of Fame: The Legend of Good Women, The Treatise on the… (2008) 13 exemplares
The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. Volume 3: The Canterbury Tales. From the text of Professor Skeat. (1910) 13 exemplares
A Variorum Edition of the Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. Volume V: The Minor Poems, Part One (1982) 13 exemplares
Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, Vol. I: Romaunt of the Rose, Minor Poems (in seven volumes) (2003) 12 exemplares
Five Canterbury Tales: Level 1: 400-Word Vocabulary Five Canterbury Tales (Dominoes, Level One) (2010) 12 exemplares
Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, Vol. VII: Chaucerian and Other Pieces, Being A Supplement to the Complete Works of… (1897) 11 exemplares
The General Prologue & The Physician's Tale: In Middle English & In Modern Verse Translation (2006) 10 exemplares
The Canterbury Tales and Faerie Queene: With Other Poems of Chaucer and Spencer. Edited for Popular Perusal, with… (1874) — Autor — 9 exemplares
The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, Vol. 1: From the Text of Professor Skeat (1906) 9 exemplares
The Poems of Chaucer 9 exemplares
The prioresses tale, Sir Thopas, the Monkes tale, the Clerkes tale, the Squieres tale, from the Canterbury tales (2007) 8 exemplares
The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, vol. 6, Introduction, Glossary, and Indexes (2013) 8 exemplares
Chaucer 8 exemplares
The Canterbury Tales: A Facsimile and Transcription of the Hengwrt Manuscript, with Variations from the Ellesmere… (1979) 7 exemplares
The Reeve's Tale 7 exemplares
The Tale of the Man of lawe;: The Pardoneres tale; the Second nonnes tale; the Chanouns yemannes tale, from the… (1879) 7 exemplares
Reading & Training : Geoffrey Chaucer : The Canterbury Tales [book + sound recording] (2007) — Writer — 7 exemplares
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (Selected): An Interlinear Translation — Autor — 6 exemplares
The Canon Yeoman's Prologue and Tale: From the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer (Selected Tales from Chaucer) (1965) 6 exemplares
Geoffrey Chaucer's The Pardoner's Tale (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1988) 6 exemplares
An ABC 5 exemplares
The Canterbury Tales: A retelling by Peter Ackroyd 5 exemplares
The Programmed Classics (13 Volume Set (Canterbury Tales, Crime & Punishment, Complete works of William Shakespeare… (1968) — Contribuidor — 4 exemplares
The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer with an Essay on His Language and Versification and an Introductory Discourse… 4 exemplares
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales: Annotated and Accented, With Illustrations of English Life in Chaucers Time (Classic… (1845) 4 exemplares
The Canterbury tales I & II 4 exemplares
The workes of our ancient and learned English poet, Geffrey Chaucer, newly printed. : To that which was done in the… 3 exemplares
Chaucer : the prologue and three tales 3 exemplares
Geoffrey Chaucer TROILUS AND CRESSIDA Krapp Transl. 1932 Random House 3rd Print. (1385) 3 exemplares
The Works 1532, With Supplementary Material from the Editions of 1542, 1561, 1598 and 1602 (1969) 3 exemplares
The Tales of The Clerk and The Wife of Bath (Curriculum Policy and Research Series) (1992) 3 exemplares
El parlamento de las aves y otras visiones del sueno/ The parliament of the birds and other dream visions (Biblioteca… (2006) 3 exemplares
Två Canterbury sägner 3 exemplares
Die Canterbury-Erzählungen : mittelenglisch und deutsch 2 Fragment V - Fragment X der Canterbury-Erzählungen 3 exemplares
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales for the Modern Reader prepared & edited by Arthur Burrell (1929) 3 exemplares
Chaucer's Troylus and Cryseyde (from the Harl. ms. 3943) compared with Boccaccio's Filostrato (1976) 2 exemplares
The Canterbury tales of Geoffrey Chaucer / a selection edited with introduction and notes by Daniel Cook. 2 exemplares
Canterbury Tales, Routledge, London, n.d. 2 exemplares
Canterbury Tales, Dent, London '89 2 exemplares
Poetical Works, Tyrwhite, London, '74 2 exemplares
Poetical Works, 6 vols., Bell & Daldy, London, '66 2 exemplares
Geoffrey Chaucer Canterbury Tales 2 exemplares
The Caterbury Tales 2 exemplares
The Canterbury Tales (Penguin Popular Classics) by Geoffrey Chaucer (24-Feb-2011) Paperback (1600) 2 exemplares
The Canterbury Tales [with] The Golden Cockerel Press, The Canterbury Tales and Eric Gill, An Essay By Peter Holliday (2010) 2 exemplares
The works of Geoffrey Chaucer, : compared with the former editions, and many valuable MSS. out of which, three tales… 2 exemplares
The Canterbury Tales With Side-By-Side Modern English Translation (Classic Retold With Side-By-Side Translation Book 1) (2015) 2 exemplares
The Flower and the Leaf. One of 165 copies, all on vellum pages, with 3 hand-colored engraved plates and 85 hand… 2 exemplares
Truth {poem} 2 exemplares
Gentilesse {poem} 2 exemplares
The Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer, Selected and Ed. By Edwin Johnston Howard [and] Gordon Don (1947) 2 exemplares
The story of Patient Grisilde 2 exemplares
The Pierpont Morgan Library Manuscript M.817: A Facsimile (The Facsimile Series of the Works of Geoffrey Chaucer ; V.… (1986) 2 exemplares
Chaucer Criticism The Canterbury Tales 2 exemplares
The Complaynt of Chaucer to His Purse {poem} 2 exemplares
Selections from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales 2 exemplares
Selections from Chaucer, including his earlier and later verse and an example of his prose 2 exemplares
Canterbury tales; Chaucer for present-day readers 2 exemplares
The Shipman's Tale 2 exemplares
The Friar'S, Summoner'S, and Pardoner's Tales from the Canterbury Tales (Medieval and Renaissance Texts) (1975) 2 exemplares
The Wild Duck By Ibsen, the Manual By Epictetus, the Canterbury Tales By Chaucer (Great Books Foundation, Set Five,… 2 exemplares
The workes of our ancient ... poet Geffrey Chaucer. [Followed by] The storie of Thebes, by I. Lidgate 2 exemplares
The Wife of Bath: Complete, Authoritative Text With Biographical and Historical Contexts, Critical History, and Essays… (1996) 2 exemplares
The Canterbury Tales I 1 exemplar
The Canterbury Tales: A Selection 1 exemplar
Cuentos del molinero y el carpintero 1 exemplar
Opowieści kanterberyjskie 1 exemplar
The Canturbury Tales 1 exemplar
The Canterbury Tales (Xist Classics) 1 exemplar
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. The Prologue. Edited with introduction and notes by Alfred W. Pollard 1 exemplar
Persuasion 1 exemplar
A first Chaucer 1 exemplar
Canterbury Tales, A6 1 exemplar
Selection from the Canterbury Tales 1 exemplar
THE CANTERBURY TALES Easton Press 1 exemplar
The Canterbury Tales 1 exemplar
Canterburysägner II 1 exemplar
Historias de Chaucer 1 exemplar
Prologue and Knightes Tale 1 exemplar
Basilisk Press Kelmscott Chaucer 1 exemplar
CHAUCER The Pardoner's Tale 1 exemplar
Burlesque Plays and Poems 1 exemplar
Gríshildur góða og fleiri sögur 1 exemplar
カンタベリ物語〈上〉 (ちくま文庫) — Autor — 1 exemplar
The Count of Monte Cristo; The Canterbury Tales(3); Vanity Fair (The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written) (1990) 1 exemplar
Beowulf / Chaucer Read by Kokeriz and Pope 1 exemplar
The Ellesmere Chaucer 1 exemplar
Canterburysägner I 1 exemplar
Poems By Geoffrey Chaucer 1 exemplar
Chaucer's Dream 1 exemplar
Chaucer's A.B.C. 1 exemplar
The Assembly of Fowls 1 exemplar
The Cuckoo and the Nightingale 1 exemplar
The Court of Love 1 exemplar
The Prologue and Four Canterbury Tales 1 exemplar
The Book of the Duchess 1 exemplar
The Miller's Tale 1 exemplar
Poetical Works 1 exemplar
The Wife of Bath Prologue and Tale 1 exemplar
The Prioress's Tale 1 exemplar
The General Prologue -- The Pardoner's Tale 1 exemplar
The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales: The Romaunt of the Rose, and Minor Poems (Classic Reprint) (2017) 1 exemplar
Clásicos bruguera 1 exemplar
The Monk's Tale 1 exemplar
The Second Nun's Tale 1 exemplar
Tale Of Sir Thopas 1 exemplar
Tale Of Melibee (Tale Of Melibeus) 1 exemplar
The Friar's Tale 1 exemplar
The Cook's Tale 1 exemplar
The Canterbury Tales (Book on Tape) (The Nun's Priest's Tale/ The Knight's Tale, 2 Cassettes) (1983) 1 exemplar
Canterbury tales: Selections (Great Books) 1 exemplar
Miller's Tale -- Prologue 1 exemplar
A selection from the Canterbury tales 1 exemplar
Oxford Student Texts: 10 book pack (The Pardoners Tale / The Rape of Lock / The Duchess of Malfi / Keats Selected… (2010) 1 exemplar
A comprehensive list of textual comparison between Blake's and Robinson's editions of The Canterbury tales (1995) 1 exemplar
The Man of Law"s Tale, the Nun"s Priest"s Tale, the Squire"s Tale. [The King"s Classics] (1904) 1 exemplar
The Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer: A New Text with Illustrative Notes, Volume 1 (2010) 1 exemplar
Chaucer. The prologue & ... the Prioress's tale. - The nun's priest's tale. - The pardoner's tale 1 exemplar
The Canterbury Tales (Longman Classics, Stage 2) Simplified edition by Geoffrey Chaucer (1989) Paperback (1707) 1 exemplar
The College Chaucer 1 exemplar
Stories from Chaucer, the Canterbury Tales 1 exemplar
Boece 1 exemplar
Short poems 1 exemplar
The Indispensable Chaucer 1 exemplar
December 1 exemplar
The prioress's tale, The tale of Sir Thopas 1 exemplar
Canterbury Tales, Selections (audiobook) 1 exemplar
Specimen extracts from the nine known unprinted mss. of Chaucer's "Troilus" and from Caxton's and… 1 exemplar
Great Books 22 1 exemplar
Canterbury tales, a selective version 1 exemplar
Chaucer's Canterbury tales: The squire's tale. Edited with introd. and notes by A.W. Pollard (2011) 1 exemplar
Preamble and Tale of the Wife of Bath, The 1 exemplar
Chaucer's Canterbury pilgrims 1 exemplar
Rare TROILUS & CRESSIDA by Geoffrey Chaucer, Limited Editions Club in Slipcase, 1939 (1939) 1 exemplar
حكايات كانتربري (سلسلة أفاق عالمية،#195) 1 exemplar
The Wife Of Bath And Other Canterbury Tales 1 exemplar
The clerk of Oxford's tale 1 exemplar
Canterburyn kertomuksia 1 exemplar
Chaucer Complete Works 1 exemplar
Canterbury Tales, Volume 2 1 exemplar
The Canterbury Tales 1 exemplar
The Poetical Works of Geoff. Chaucer: The Miscellaneous Pieces from Urry'S Edition 1721 : The Canterbury Tales from… (2012) 1 exemplar
Poetical works of Geoffrey Chaucer, volume V 1 exemplar
The Three Cuckolds. [Subtitle]: Out of Chaucer in modern prose renderingby Willis L. Parker. Privately issued for… (1932) 1 exemplar
The Canterbury Tales (2 cassettes) (The Prologue and the Pardoner's Prologue and Tale (Read in Middle English) (1978) 1 exemplar
The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer, Vol. 2: To Which Are Added, an Essay on His Language and Versification, an… (2017) 1 exemplar
The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer, Vol. 4: With an Essay Upon His Language and Versification, an Introductory Discourse,… (2015) 1 exemplar
Troilus and Cressida and Chaucer 1 exemplar
Stories from Chaucer told to the children by Janet Harvey Kelman. With pictures by W. Heath Robinson (Told to the… (1906) 1 exemplar
Associated Works
The Best Poems of the English Language: From Chaucer Through Robert Frost (2004) — Contribuidor — 1,047 exemplares
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Contribuidor, algumas edições — 917 exemplares
World Poetry: An Anthology of Verse from Antiquity to Our Time (1998) — Contribuidor — 447 exemplares
The Graphic Canon, Vol. 1: From the Epic of Gilgamesh to Shakespeare to Dangerous Liaisons (2012) — Contribuidor — 280 exemplares
Trilogy of Life: The Decameron / Canterbury Tales / Arabian Nights (1971) — Original book — 45 exemplares
Out of the Best Books: An Anthology of Literature, Vol. 1: The Individual and Human Values (1964) — Contribuidor — 40 exemplares
Floure and the Leafe, the Assembly of Ladies, the Isle of Ladies (1990) — mis-attribution, algumas edições — 33 exemplares
Lapham's Quarterly - Lines of Work: Volume IV, Number 2, Spring 2011 (2011) — Contribuidor — 29 exemplares
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 4th Edition, Volume 1 (1974) — Contribuidor — 20 exemplares
The Graphic Canon of Crime & Mystery, Vol. 2: From Salome to Edgar Allan Poe to The Silence of the Lambs (2021) — Contribuidor — 14 exemplares
Oogst der tijden : keur uit de werken van schrijvers en dichters aller volken en eeuwen (1940) — Contribuidor — 10 exemplares
The tale of Gamelyn : from the Harleian ms. no. 7334, collated with six other mss. (1884) — Attribution, algumas edições — 7 exemplares
Chaucer's Translation of Boethius's "De Consolatione Philosphiæ." (0014) — Tradutor, algumas edições — 5 exemplares
Great Poems from Chaucer to Whitman — Contribuidor — 3 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome legal
- Chaucer, Geoffrey
- Data de nascimento
- s. 1343 [1343]
- Data de falecimento
- 1400-10-25 [1400]
- Localização do túmulo
- Abadia de Westminster, Londres, Anglaterra, RU (Cantonada del Poeta)
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- Anglaterra
- País (no mapa)
- RU
- Local de nascimento
- Londres, Anglaterra, RU
- Local de falecimento
- Londres, Anglaterra, RU
- Locais de residência
- Londres, Anglaterra (naixement)
Gatehouse, Aldgate, Londres, Anglaterra - Ocupações
- poeta
filòsof
burócrata
diplomàtic
funcionari
soldat (mostrar todos 10)
escuder (Casa del Rei Edward III)
controlador (Aduanes i subvencions de la llana, la pell i el cuir tenyit)
traductor
Secretari (dels Treballs del Rei) - Relações
- Gower, John (amic)
- Prémios e menções honrosas
- Caballer de la comarca (Kent)
Membros
Discussions
OT: Chaucer collection goes online em Fine Press Forum (Outubro 2023)
Folio Archives 341: Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer – LIMITED EDITION 2011 em Folio Society Devotees (Setembro 2023)
Folio Archives 323: The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer 1990 em Folio Society Devotees (Julho 2023)
LE Canterbury Tales em Folio Society Devotees (Junho 2023)
Kelmscott Chaucer - Easton Press vs. Bradford Exchange side by side comparison em Easton Press Collectors (Dezembro 2022)
Kelmscott Chaucer em Fine Press Forum (Novembro 2022)
Críticas
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales Selected An Interlinear… por Vincent F. Hopper
AR: 8.1
This is THE Chaucer book, it has everything plus helpful comments and annotations. I wish I had the time to read it front to back, but for now I only had the time to read some of the Tales and the Romaunt of the Rose.
Joseph Glaser's translation of Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales is wonderfully readable and entertaining. His translation makes the work easily accessible to modern readers providing a poetic rhythm and rhyme that hints of Chaucer's own poetry.
The Tales themselves range from the devout to the vulgarly humorous. Most delightful are the characters brought to life within the Tales.
The Tales themselves range from the devout to the vulgarly humorous. Most delightful are the characters brought to life within the Tales.
63. Troilus and Criseyde (Broadview Editions) by Geoffrey Chaucer
editors: James McMurrin Dean & Harriet Spiegel (2016)
OPD: 1385
format: 450-page oversized paperback with the original text and notes on the same page.
acquired: April 2022 read: (Aug 26) Sep 8 – Nov 19 time reading: 34:48, 4.6 mpp
rating: 5
genre/style: Middle English epic poetry theme: Chaucer
locations: Troy
about the author: Chaucer (~1342 – October 25, 1400) was an English poet and civil servant.
extended excerpts:
- Le Roman de Troie by Benoît de Sainte-Maure (c1160), translated from French by Robert K. Gordon (1934)
- Il Filostrato by Giovanni Boccaccio (c1340), translated from Italian by Robert K. Gordon (1934)
- The Testament of Cresseid by Robert Henryson (1532). Translated by the editors (2016)
- Metamorphoses by Ovid (7 ce), translated from Latin by Rolfe Humphries 1961
- Ars Amatoria (The Art of Love) by Ovid (3 bce), translated by Rolfe Humphries 1957
- The Consolation of Philosophy by Ancius Boethius (524), translated from Latin by Victor Watts (1969, 1999)
- On Love by Andreas Capellanus (c1190), translated from French by P.G. Walsh (1993)
- Romance of the Rose by Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun (c1230/c1275), translated from French by Charles Dahlberg (1971)
- Canzoniere Sonnet 132 by Francesco Petrarch (c1370), translated from Italian by A.S. Kline (2002)
- Commentary on Cicero's Dream of Scipio by Macrobius (c400), translated from Latin by William Harris Stahl (1952,1990,2009)
- excerpts from Lovesick in the Middle Ages: The Viaticum and Its Commentaries by Mary Wack (1990)
--- Viaticum by Constantine the African (1000s) - a Latin translation from Arabic of Zad Al Mussafir by Ibn Al Jazzar (900's)
--- Glosses on the Viaticum by Gerald of Berry (c1236), translated from Latin
--- Treatise on the Viaticum by Bona Fortuna (c1320), translated from Latin
Well. I can't possibly review this. What I can say is that this Broadview Press edition is fantastic. It has the original language with some spelling clarifications, along with notes. And Chaucer is readable enough today that that is enough information and allows the reader to enjoy the poetry, especially play of sound. I don't think Chaucer is readable without help (or extensive knowledge of the London dialect of Middle English).
Also, I really enjoyed this. It's a highlight of my year. I read it in the morning for 20 to 40 minutes and relished it, reading only six or so pages at a sitting. The plot is simple. The text is largely dialogue, one character speaking for pages at a time. I never felt in danger of getting lost and I never worried about breaking off at any point, or about pressing on until some conclusion.
Also, it's humor. I never felt the need to take anything seriously, even Chaucer's philosophical side points. This surprised me a little because everything I read about this led to me expect some deep Christian-era-friendly thoughts. This is supposed to be Chaucer's big serious effort at artistry and reputation. But this is funny, elegant and funny. And, also, it is not clean. The tone is always playful, as playful as the language.
I think the language and linguistic play is the main point here. I enjoyed this aspect so much.
The best character is Pandarus, the uncle of Criseyde and friend of Trojan prince, Troilus. He is a gamer through and through. The game is how to get his niece linked to the number one bachelor in Troy. I couldn't help imagining that Chaucer saw himself in Pandarus, but that's my impression. The character Troilus, meanwhile, is comically ridiculous. He's spineless and roiling in bed suffering from lovesickness. When Pandarus sets the world up for him, and the world is his in Book 3, he comes alive a little. He is thoroughly tragic in Book 4, and it's almost moving until we remember him in bed in back in the early books. Criseyde (maybe pronounced "Christ-eyed", but the pronunciation, based on the rhymes, seems ambiguous) is ultimately practical. She's a convincing lover, and I was left thinking I never got her right, that it was never clear where her true feelings lay. Somehow Pandarus makes the match, but he gets no benefit from it or its tragic end. The more Pandarus was present, the better Chaucer's writing was, in my opinion.
I wish I could conclude. One for the brave, thoroughly rewarding.
2023
https://www.librarything.com/topic/354226#8291135… (mais)
editors: James McMurrin Dean & Harriet Spiegel (2016)
OPD: 1385
format: 450-page oversized paperback with the original text and notes on the same page.
acquired: April 2022 read: (Aug 26) Sep 8 – Nov 19 time reading: 34:48, 4.6 mpp
rating: 5
genre/style: Middle English epic poetry theme: Chaucer
locations: Troy
about the author: Chaucer (~1342 – October 25, 1400) was an English poet and civil servant.
extended excerpts:
- Le Roman de Troie by Benoît de Sainte-Maure (c1160), translated from French by Robert K. Gordon (1934)
- Il Filostrato by Giovanni Boccaccio (c1340), translated from Italian by Robert K. Gordon (1934)
- The Testament of Cresseid by Robert Henryson (1532). Translated by the editors (2016)
- Metamorphoses by Ovid (7 ce), translated from Latin by Rolfe Humphries 1961
- Ars Amatoria (The Art of Love) by Ovid (3 bce), translated by Rolfe Humphries 1957
- The Consolation of Philosophy by Ancius Boethius (524), translated from Latin by Victor Watts (1969, 1999)
- On Love by Andreas Capellanus (c1190), translated from French by P.G. Walsh (1993)
- Romance of the Rose by Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun (c1230/c1275), translated from French by Charles Dahlberg (1971)
- Canzoniere Sonnet 132 by Francesco Petrarch (c1370), translated from Italian by A.S. Kline (2002)
- Commentary on Cicero's Dream of Scipio by Macrobius (c400), translated from Latin by William Harris Stahl (1952,1990,2009)
- excerpts from Lovesick in the Middle Ages: The Viaticum and Its Commentaries by Mary Wack (1990)
--- Viaticum by Constantine the African (1000s) - a Latin translation from Arabic of Zad Al Mussafir by Ibn Al Jazzar (900's)
--- Glosses on the Viaticum by Gerald of Berry (c1236), translated from Latin
--- Treatise on the Viaticum by Bona Fortuna (c1320), translated from Latin
Well. I can't possibly review this. What I can say is that this Broadview Press edition is fantastic. It has the original language with some spelling clarifications, along with notes. And Chaucer is readable enough today that that is enough information and allows the reader to enjoy the poetry, especially play of sound. I don't think Chaucer is readable without help (or extensive knowledge of the London dialect of Middle English).
Also, I really enjoyed this. It's a highlight of my year. I read it in the morning for 20 to 40 minutes and relished it, reading only six or so pages at a sitting. The plot is simple. The text is largely dialogue, one character speaking for pages at a time. I never felt in danger of getting lost and I never worried about breaking off at any point, or about pressing on until some conclusion.
Also, it's humor. I never felt the need to take anything seriously, even Chaucer's philosophical side points. This surprised me a little because everything I read about this led to me expect some deep Christian-era-friendly thoughts. This is supposed to be Chaucer's big serious effort at artistry and reputation. But this is funny, elegant and funny. And, also, it is not clean. The tone is always playful, as playful as the language.
I think the language and linguistic play is the main point here. I enjoyed this aspect so much.
The best character is Pandarus, the uncle of Criseyde and friend of Trojan prince, Troilus. He is a gamer through and through. The game is how to get his niece linked to the number one bachelor in Troy. I couldn't help imagining that Chaucer saw himself in Pandarus, but that's my impression. The character Troilus, meanwhile, is comically ridiculous. He's spineless and roiling in bed suffering from lovesickness. When Pandarus sets the world up for him, and the world is his in Book 3, he comes alive a little. He is thoroughly tragic in Book 4, and it's almost moving until we remember him in bed in back in the early books. Criseyde (maybe pronounced "Christ-eyed", but the pronunciation, based on the rhymes, seems ambiguous) is ultimately practical. She's a convincing lover, and I was left thinking I never got her right, that it was never clear where her true feelings lay. Somehow Pandarus makes the match, but he gets no benefit from it or its tragic end. The more Pandarus was present, the better Chaucer's writing was, in my opinion.
I wish I could conclude. One for the brave, thoroughly rewarding.
2023
https://www.librarything.com/topic/354226#8291135… (mais)
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