Chaucer in the eighteenth century : the father of English poetry / David Hopkins and Tom Mason

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hopkins, David, author.

Mason, Tom, author.

Series:

Oxford Academic

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--18th century--History and criticism.

English literature.

English poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (465 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2022

Summary:

This book is a study of how the poetry of Chaucer continued to give pleasure in the eighteenth century despite the immense linguistic, literary, and cultural shifts that had occurred between the fourteenth and eighteenth centuries. It investigates the full variety of responses to Chaucer from the late seventeenth century to the early nineteenth century. These include editions, biographies, and critical accounts and various kinds of translation, adaptation, and imitation. The book is primarily designed to appeal to students of eighteenth-century literature and of Chaucer, but should also be of interest to students of literary influence and reception in all periods.

Contents:

Introduction

1 Chaucer and the Progress of Poetry

2 The Father of Poetry and the Father of Criticism1

3 Palamon and Arcite

4 The Cock and the Fox

5 Chaucer's Characters, Chaucer's Character, and the Character of Chaucer's Verse

6 The True, Enlivened, Natural Way

7 Some Eighteenth-Century Wives of Bath

8 Samuel Johnson and Chaucer

9 Visions, Proclamations, and Courts of Love

10 Pathos, Chivalry, and Romance

11 Chaucer and The Temples of Fame

12 Poets and Antiquarians

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Hopkins, David Chaucer in the Eighteenth Century

ISBN:

0-19-267694-6

0-19-195367-9

0-19-267693-8

OCLC:

1330933854