Tolkien's Lost Chaucer

Tolkien's Lost Chaucer

Bowers, John M. (Professor of English, University of Nevada Las Vegas)

Oxford University Press

10/2019

336

Dura

Inglês

9780198842675

15 a 20 dias

Tolkien's Lost Chaucer uncovers the story of an unpublished and previously unknown book by the author of The Lord of the Rings. It reveals how major episodes from the trilogy were inspired by Tolkien's editing and teaching of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.
1: Prologue: Concerning Chaucer 2: Unexpected Journeys 3: Four Chaucerians: Walter W. Skeat, Kenneth Sisam, George Gordon, and C.S. Lewis 4: Tolkien as Editor: Text and Glossary 5: The Chaucerian Incubus: The Notes 6: Tolkien as Chaucerian: The Reeve's Tale 7: Chaucer in Middle-Earth Appendices Works Cited