2009, ISBN: 9781176254107

General Books publication date: 2009Original publication date: 1914Original Publisher: Columbia University Press Subjects: Roman de la RoseChaucer, GeoffreyEnglish poetryLiterary Criticis… More...

General Books publication date: 2009Original publication date: 1914Original Publisher: Columbia University Press Subjects: Roman de la RoseChaucer, GeoffreyEnglish poetryLiterary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, WelshLiterary Criticism / European / FrenchPoetry / English, Irish, Scottish, WelshHistory / GeneralLiterary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, WelshLiterary Criticism / MedievalLiterary Criticism / General Books publication date: 2009Original publication date: 1914Original Publisher: Columbia University Press Subjects: Roman de la RoseChaucer, GeoffreyEnglish poetryLiterary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, WelshLiterary Criticism / European / FrenchPoetry / English, Irish, Scottish, WelshHistory / GeneralLiterary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, WelshLiterary Criticism / MedievalLiterary Criticism / PoetryPoetry / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Chaucer and the Roman de la Rose CHAPTER I The Influence Of The Roman De La Rose On Chaucer's Reading Chaucer's early literary career is more or less direct proof that the poet meant what he said when he wrote And as for me thogh that I can but lyte, On bokes for to rede I me delyte, And to hem yeve I feyth and ful credence, And in myn herte have hem in reverence So hertely, that ther is- game noon That fro my bokes maketh me te goon, But it be seldom, on the holy day. (L. 29-35) Later on (Prol. A. 273-274) we have a reference to the size of the poet's library, when the god of Love says to Chaucer, Sixty bokes olde and newe Hast thou thy-self, alle fulle of stories grete. In a poem which all critics agree is one of the earliest, if not the earliest, of Chaucer's genuine poems that have come down to us - the Book of the Duchess - the poet is revealed as a man already acquainted with a considerable body of literature. This poem furnishes incontrovertible evidence that Chaucer had read in Ovid, Machauft, the authors of the Roman de la Rose, and other minor writers. There are a number of passages in the Book of the Duchess that go Books, History~~General, Chaucer-and-the-Roman-de-la-rose~~Dean-Spruill-Fansler, , , , , , , , , , Nabu Press<

ISBN: 1176254103

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ISBN: 1176254103

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