Canterbury tales /
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400.
Canterbury tales / Geoffrey Chaucer ; edited by A.C. Cawley ; with an introduction by Derek Pearsall. - New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, c1992. - xli, 607 p. ; 21 cm. - Everyman's library ; 74 .
The precise, unerring, delicately emphatic characterizations for which The Canterbury Tales is so famous are no more extraordinary than Chaucer’s utter mastery of English rhythms and his effortless versification. Ranging from animal fables to miniature epics of courtly love and savagely hilarious comedies of sexual comeuppance, these stories told by pilgrims on the way to the shrine of Thomas à Becket in Canterbury reveal a teeming, vital fourteenth-century English society on the verge of its Renaissance.
Includes bibliographical references (p. xxv-xxvii).
0679409890
91053184
Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages--Poetry.
PR1865 / 1992
821.1 / C.G.C
Canterbury tales / Geoffrey Chaucer ; edited by A.C. Cawley ; with an introduction by Derek Pearsall. - New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, c1992. - xli, 607 p. ; 21 cm. - Everyman's library ; 74 .
The precise, unerring, delicately emphatic characterizations for which The Canterbury Tales is so famous are no more extraordinary than Chaucer’s utter mastery of English rhythms and his effortless versification. Ranging from animal fables to miniature epics of courtly love and savagely hilarious comedies of sexual comeuppance, these stories told by pilgrims on the way to the shrine of Thomas à Becket in Canterbury reveal a teeming, vital fourteenth-century English society on the verge of its Renaissance.
Includes bibliographical references (p. xxv-xxvii).
0679409890
91053184
Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages--Poetry.
PR1865 / 1992
821.1 / C.G.C