Tolkien's Lost Chaucer

Author : John M. Bowers (Professor of English, University of Nevada Las Vegas)

Hardback

Published : Thursday 10 October 2019

ISBN : 9780198842675

Price : €29.25

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Tolkien's Lost Chaucer

by John M. Bowers (Professor of English, University of Nevada Las Vegas)

Hardback

10 Oct 2019

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€29.25

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Tolkien's Lost Chaucer uncovers the story of an unpublished and previously unknown book by the author of The Lord of the Rings. It reveals how major episodes from the trilogy were inspired by Tolkien's editing and teaching of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.

Tolkien's Lost Chaucer uncovers the story of an unpublished and previously unknown book by the author of The Lord of the Rings.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 of fantasy 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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