Paukan, Andrew & Tupou L PuluBiblio.com
Carlson, David RBiblio.com
CHAUCER'S JOBS
20042158Palgrave Macmillan. 2004. Hardcover. Near Fine in No Dust Jacket dust jacket. 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." . 1403966257 . Palgrave Macmillan hardcover
