Tolkien's Lost Chaucer
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 10 October 2019
- ISBN 9780198842675
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages328 pages
- Size 241x165x27 mm
- Weight 670 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 15 Illustrations 2
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Short description:
Tolkien's Lost Chaucer uncovers the story of an unpublished and previously unknown book by the author of The Lord of the Rings.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.
MoreLong description:
Tolkien's Lost Chaucer uncovers the story of an unpublished and previously unknown book by the author of The Lord of the Rings.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.
This book admirably fills in one of the last remaining gaps in our understanding of Tolkien's life and work that we are likely ever to be able to fill.
Table of Contents:
Prologue: Concerning Chaucer
Unexpected Journeys
Four Chaucerians: Walter W. Skeat, Kenneth Sisam, George Gordon, and C.S. Lewis
Tolkien as Editor: Text and Glossary
The Chaucerian Incubus: The Notes
Tolkien as Chaucerian: The Reeve's Tale
Chaucer in Middle-Earth
Appendices
Works Cited
