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pp. xi, 442. Double column. Large 8vo. Original full green cloth binding, gold lettered spine. Front board slightly dust spotted. Hardbound. POETRY2 BOX 1
pp. xi, 229. Tall 8vo. 235mm. Original full blue cloth binding. Spine lettered in gold. Original priced dust jacket, soiled. First Edition. Hardbound. Very good. POETRY BX 3
Dustjacket is protected in mylar. Dustjacket has some shelfwear and rubbing. DJ is price-clipped. Book has some crumpling to boards. ; Aers aims at a literary, critical response which moves from close reading of particular texts (notably Piers Plowman and Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde and the Canterbury Tales) to the relevant contexts, social, theological, ecclesiastical. The reader is thus able to return to the texts with an enriched and sharpened understanding of his world, and an increased appreciation of the literature at the heart of this book. ; 248 pages
Contents include: 17 Essays: George Lyman Kittredge ("On the 'Troilus'" from Seven Types of Ambiguity) ; C. S. Lewis ("What Chaucer Really Did to 'Il Filostrato'") others including: Morton W. Bloomfield; E. Talbot Donaldson, Norman Davis, John Leyerle, and many others. ; 323 pages
Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. Dustjacket is protected in mylar and taped down to book. ; Contents include: 17 Essays: George Lyman Kittredge ("On the 'Troilus'" from Seven Types of Ambiguity) ; C. S. Lewis ("What Chaucer Really Did to 'Il Filostrato'") others including: Morton W. Bloomfield; E. Talbot Donaldson, Norman Davis, John Leyerle, and many others. ; 323 pages
Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. ; 0.55 x 8.5 x 5.59 Inches; 126 pages; This book examines "Troilus and Criseyde" and "The Knight's Tale" as poems which work the same plot to contrasting tragic and joyous endings but for the same purpose, of exploring the folly of electing the temporal world over the eternal. It demonstrates that the tragedy of "Troilus and Criseyde" is a consequence of the folly of relying on Fortune and temporal bliss and works through the pattern of a similar dependence in "The Knight's Tale." It then develops the portrayal of the protagonists of the poems as Fortune's Fools through a scrutiny of courtship as game of play, of "caritas" and "cupiditas" contrasted with the implications of pity, mercy, grace, and love as used in temporal contexts in the poem but defined theologically elsewhere in Chaucer, and of the limitations of knighthood and chivalry as defined by the world of the poems.
xv + 127pp.+ 48 plates out of text (facsimile reproduction of the manuscript), 25cm., text in English, in the series "Rijksuniversiteit te Gent. Werken uitgegeven door de faculteit van de wijsbegeerte en letteren" volume 89, very good condition, posthumous publication of Pintelon's study, W98490
Minor Shelfwear; The New Middle Ages; 0.7 x 8.3 x 5.5 Inches; 176 pages; Geoffrey Chaucer was not a writer, primarily, but a privileged official place-holder. Prone to violence, including rape, assault, and extortion, the poet was employed first at domestic personal service and subsequently at policework of various sorts, protecting the established order during a period of massive social upset. Chaucer's Jobs shows that the servile and disciplinary nature of the daily work Chaucer did was repeated in his poetry, which by turns flatters his aristocratic betters and deals out discipline to malcontent others. Carlson contends that it was this social and political quality of Chaucer's writings, rathen than artistic merit, that made him the "Father of English Poetry."
Dustjacket has shelf wear and minor soiling covered in mylar. ; Author examines Chaucer's unfinished and puzzling work House of Fame, and finds its author struggling to establish a rhetorical and intellectual stance for the artist that can accomodate traditional material while reserving a skeptical attitude toward it. Skeptical Fideism is rooted and reflected in the work of thirteenth and fourteenth century philosophers such as Boetius, Siger of Barbant, William of Ockam and others. ; 134 pages
viii + 290pp., 25cm., in the series "Mediaevalia Lovaniensia" Series 1 Studia 19, softcover, fine condition, [text in English], T74604
8vo., Third Impression thus; original series binding of green ribbed cloth, upper board blocked in blind, gilt back, dark top, decorative endpapers, a very good, bright, clean copy. First published in EL in 1908. EL 307; Seymour 185.0.
Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. Minor shelfwear. ; 1 x 9.25 x 6 Inches; 270 pages; Professor Shinsuke Ando, of the University of Keio, is among the most distinguished scholars of medieval and Renaissance English literature. To celebrate his sixtieth birthday, friends and colleagues from around the world have contributed to this collection of essays on topics of special interest to him, including Chaucer, Gower, Malory, medieval romance, sixteenth-century drama, Sidney, and Shakespeare. The Western European and US contributors are: LORD BUTTERFIELD, THWAITE, BREWER, HARDY, KERRIGAN, FICHTE, MROCZKOWSKI, HAAS, AXTON, AHRENS, SPEARING, BURROW, MORSE, BEADLE, BLAKE, WINDEATT. The Japanese contributors are: FUJII, IWASAKI, NOGUCHI, NOJIMA, OIZUMI, TAKADA, TAKAHASHI, TAKAMIYA, UENO, KAWACHI.
A couple of pages have pencil notes and underlinings. Michael Ondaatje's name to ffep. ; Michael Ondaatje has signed the title page -- his university copy from 1964. Michael Ondaatje, author of "The English Patient". ; 63 pages
xxvi + 629pp., (edited from materials compiled by John M. Manly and Edith Rickert), 1st edition, 24cm., publisher's hardcover in blue cloth with gilt lettering at spine, text clean and bright, good condition, T98528
[Chaucer Studies Vol XXXVII] Literature of the city and the city in literature are topics of major contemporary interest. This volume enhances our understanding of Chaucer's iconic role as a London poet, defining the modern sense of London as a city in history, steeped in its medieval past. Building on recent work by historians on medieval London, as well as modern urban theory, the essays address the centrality of the city in Chaucer's work, and of Chaucer to a literature and a language of the city. Contributors explore the spatial extent of the city, imaginatively and geographically; the diverse and sometimes violent relationships between communities, and the use of language to identify and speak for communities; the worlds of commerce, the aristocracy, law, and public order. A final section considers the longer history and memory of the medieval city beyond the devastations of the Great Fire and into the Victorian period. 231p. ibliography index Book
pp. 208, cm 23x16, paperback edition.
8vo., cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in dustwrapper. Oxford History of English Literature, II. Bennett's classic study was first published in 1947.
Light soiling to wraps. ; Toronto Medieval Bibliographies, No 10; 8.75 x 1 x 5.75 Inches; 322 pages
Good hbk reprint in sunned orange cloth with black lettering Ex school library copy. Some pencil underlining to text. 11302. eng
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slight rubbing to rear, rubbing to ends of sunned spine and very minor bump to lower front corner. Page fore-edges untrimmed. Gilt top of page edges. 86 page intro plus 502pp. Second and Enlarged Edition of Chaucer's minor poems.
1st Edition VG in red cloth. School stamp.8794. eng
In 16o pp. 188, br. Introduzione e commento di Silvio Policardi. Vol. num. 1 della collana Classici Commentari. Gora di umidità al dorso.Ottimo(1963/ LETTERATURA INGLESE - CHAUCER)
320 p. Top edge gilt. Deckled edges. Unopened. Paper slightly browned. 200mm. From Morley's Universal Library, uniformly bound with others in the series. Gilt lettered faux vellum spine over blue gray linen boards. Spine very slightly darkened. Fine condition. Henry Morley (1822-1894) was a popular lecturer and prolific writer who did more to promote education and love of literature than any other person in the Victorian era. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! LOC W48 BAG 1
271 pages; Contents: Part One Boethian Apocalypse: The Consolation of Philosophy; A Note on Allegory; Part Two Visions of Love and Nature: De Planctu Naturae; Roman de la Rose; Confessio Amantis; The Parliament of Fowls; Part Three: Pearl; The Book of the Duchess; The Kingis Quair; The Testament of Cresseid.
Good hbk in faded green and brown embossed cloth, gilt. Bookplate on the inside front cover. Front endpaper removed. Cover spine frayed at the top and bottom edges. With illustrations. Includes biographies on Dante, Chaucer, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Sir Thomas More and many others. No publication date or edition statement. 18038. eng
