Chaucer in the Eighteenth Century: The Father of English Poetry

by Tom Mason and David Hopkins

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This volume 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 in the intervening centuries. It explores translations and imitations of Chaucer's work by Dryden, Pope, and other poets (including Samuel Cobb, John Dart, Christopher Smart, Jane Brereton, William Wordsworth, and Leigh Hunt) from the early eighteenth to the early nineteenth...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0192862626

ISBN13:9780192862624

Release Date:October 2022

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Length:464 Pages

Weight:1.89 lbs.

Dimensions:1.3" x 6.4" x 9.5"

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Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Poetry

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