Chaucer and the Making of English Poetry, Volume 2

Name: Chaucer and the Making of English Poetry, Volume 2
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Chaucer and the Making of English Poetry, Volume 2The Art of Narrative\nAuthor(s): P. M. Kean\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367357344, 978-0367357344\nSynopsis\nOriginally published in 1972. This important work of Chaucerian scholarship deals with two aspects of the poet and his work - his individual achievement and his place in history - and demonstrates that in both these senses Chaucer is a maker of English poetry. \n\nThe author explores Chaucers narrative art. The book includes an examination of the puzzling question of narrative structure in the Canterbury Tales and of the nature of Chaucerian comedy in these works. The author surveys the major themes of the poems: Fortune and free will, marriage, and the nobleness of man. In the final chapter she treats of the meaning of Chaucers art for his successors. Throughout the work, Miss Kean deals extensively with the sources which Chaucer used for the writing .