Geoffrey Chaucer. Volume 2, 1837-1933 / edited by Derek Brewer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brewer D Staff, Corporate Author.

Contributor:

Brewer, Derek.

Series:

Critical heritage series.

The critical heritage

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400.

Chaucer, Geoffrey.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (519 p.)

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, 1995.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read the material themselves.

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Contents; INTRODUCTION; BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE; THE PRINCIPAL EDITIONS OF CHAUCER'S 'WORKS' UP TO 1933; RALPH WALDO EMERSON, The identity of all minds, 1837, 1849 (1850), 1856; RICHARD HENGIST HORNE, Translations, 1841; HENRY DAVID THOREAU, Homely, innocent, childish Chaucer, 1843 (1849); 'CHRISTOPHER NORTH' (John Wilson), The allegory of love, 1845; SIR NICHOLAS HARRIS NICOLAS, A Life founded on documentary evidence, 1845; JOHN HENRY LEIGH HUNT, Geniality, singing, 1846, 1855; JAMES LORIMER, Chaucer is our Goethe, 1849; WILLIAM WATKISS LLOYD, Chaucer's irony, 1856

JOHN RUSKIN, Fimesis and other matters, 1856, 1865, 1870, 1873, 1876WALTER BAGEHOT, A healthy sagacious man of the world with a symmetrical mind, 1858; UNKNOWN, Story, situation and beauty, 1859; FRANCIS JAMES CHILD, Final -e, 1863 (1869); WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR, Creatures like ourselves, 1863; ALEXANDER SMITH, Chaucer the English Conservative, 1863; FREDERICK DENISON MAURICE, Cordial affection for men and for nature, 1865; 'MATTHEW BROWNE' (William Brightly Rands), Chaucer the Laodicean, 1869; JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL, Sincere, tender, humane, 1870 (1871); STOPFORD A.BROOKE, Natural beauty, 1871

FREDERICK JAMES FURNIVALL, Work at Chaucer, 1873JOHN WESLEY HALES, Pity and irony, 1873; WILLIAM MINTO, The spirit of chivalry, 1876; WILLIAM CYPLES, Incredible sentimentality, and the old wonder of sex, 1877; ADOLPHUS WILLIAM WARD, Dramatist and novelist, 1879; MATTHEW ARNOLD, Chaucer lacks seriousness, 1880; GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, Chaucer's scanning, 1880, 1881; ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE, The middle class, 1880, 1886; WILLIAM MORRIS, Gentleman and happy child, 1888; THOMAS RAYNSFORD LOUNSBURY, Chaucer avoids dull English seriousness, 1891

WILLIAM PATON KER, The commonplace transformed, 1895F.J.SNELL, Chaucer is the most irresponsible of men, 1901; SIR WALTER RALEIGH, Irony and simple good English, 1905 (1926); W.M.HART, Realism, unity and comic poetic justice, 1908; GEORGE SAINTSBURY, Chaucer's humour, 1908; JOHN WILLIAM MACKAIL, Daylight and romance, 1909; WILLIAM WITHERLE LAWRENCE, To show it as it was, 1911; GEORGE LYMAN KITTREDGE, A connected human comedy, 1912; EZRA POUND, Chaucer should be on every man's shelf, 1914, 1918, 1927, 1934,; HARRIET MONROE, Chaucer and Langland, 1915

JOHN S.P.TATLOCK, Chaucer the Laodicean, 1916ALDOUS HUXLEY, In love with the inevitably material, 1920; CAROLINE F.E.SPURGEON, Critics of Chaucer judge themselves not him, 1925; VIRGINIA WOOLF, The morality of the novel, 1925; JOHN MATTHEWS MANLY, From art to nature, 1926; MARIO PRAZ, Chaucer the merchantman, 1927; THOMAS FREDERICK TOUT, A prudent courtier, 1929; WILLIAM EMPSON, The ambiguity of Chaucer, 1930; JOHN LIVINGSTONE LOWES, A powerfully associative memory, 1930; CLIVE STAPLES LEWIS, What Chaucer really did to 'Il Filostrato', 1932

GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON, Never a less typical poet, 1933

Notes:

First published in 1978.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

1-134-78396-5

1-280-32491-0

0-585-46113-9

9780203196236

OCLC:

701829921