Tolkien's Lost Chaucer by Bowers, John M.

Tolkien's Lost Chaucer (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780198842675)

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Tolkien's Lost Chaucer by Bowers, John M.

Tolkien's Lost Chaucer

$40.99
Tolkien's Lost Chaucer by Bowers, John M.

Tolkien's Lost Chaucer

$40.99
Format: Hardcover
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Tolkien's Lost Chaucer uncovers the story of an unpublished and previously unknown book by the author of The Lord of the Rings. 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

Author: John M. Bowers
ISBN-10: 0198842678
ISBN-13: 9780198842675
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 12/01/2019
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.30w x 1.00d
By John M. Bowers
By John M. Bowers
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John M. Bowers, Professor of English, University of Nevada Las Vegas

John M. Bowers is an internationally known scholar of medieval English literature with books on Chaucer, Langland, and the Gawain Poet. Educated at Duke, Virginia, and Oxford where he was a Rhodes Scholar, he taught at Caltech and Princeton before settling at the University of Nevada Las Vegas. His work has been supported by fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, and the Great Courses released his lecture series The Western Literary Canon in Context.

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