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Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 354 Seiten, L=152mm, B=229mm, H=20mm, Gew.=517gr, Kartoniert/Broschiert, Klappentext: Purchase of … More...

Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 354 Seiten, L=152mm, B=229mm, H=20mm, Gew.=517gr, Kartoniert/Broschiert, Klappentext: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: GODWIN'S LIFE OF CHAUCER. [Edinburg Review, 1804.] The perusal of this title excited no small surprise in our critical fraternity. The authenticated passages of Chaucer's life may be comprised in half a dozen pages; and behold two voluminous quartos! The more sanguine of our number anticipated the recovery of the " Boke of the Lioun," and the other long lost labours of Adam Scrivenere, the bard's amanuensis; the more cautious predicted a new edition of the Chest of Rowley, and the Skakspeare cabinet of Ireland. Our expectations were yet farther heightened, by the lofty tone in which Mr. Godwin contrasts his own labours and discoveries with those of the former biographers of Chaucer. Tyrwhitt, the learned and indefatigable editor of the Canterbury Tales, had professed himself unable to produce more than a short abstract of the historical passages of the poet's life; and Ellis, the elegant historian of our early poetry, has (to use his own words) '' followed Tyrwhitt, in reciting a few genuine anecdotes, instead of attempting to work them into a connected narrative, in which much must have been supplied by mere conjecture, or by a forced interpretation of the allusions scattered through the works of the poet." But Mr. Godwin censures this resolution, as having been adopted to save the fatigue of minute research after the documents from which a full and formal life of Chaucer might have been compiled. "The fact is, however, that Tyrwhitt made no exertions as to the history of the poet, but contented himself with examining what other biographers had related, and adding a few memorandums, On the Life of Geoffrey Chaucer, the early English Poet; including Memoirs of his near Friend and Kinsman, John Of Gacnt, Duke of Lancasler; with Sketches of the Manners, Opinions, Arts, a...<

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Critical and Miscellaneous Essays; On Ellis's Specimens of the Early English Poets. Ellis' and Ritson's Specimens of Early English Metrical Romances. Godwin's Life of Chaucer. Todd's Edit… More...

Critical and Miscellaneous Essays; On Ellis's Specimens of the Early English Poets. Ellis' and Ritson's Specimens of Early English Metrical Romances. Godwin's Life of Chaucer. Todd's Edition of Spenser. Herbert's Poems Evans's Old Ballads. Moliere. Chatterton. Reliques of Burns. Compbell's Gertrude of Wyoming. the Battles of Talavera; A Poem. Southey's Curse of Kehama. Childe Harold's Pilgrimage Canto IV. Amadis of Gaul. Southey's Chronicle of the Cid. Southey's Life of John Bunyan. Godwin's F Author :Walter Sr. Scott 9780217196390 021719639X<

ISBN: 021719639X

ISBN: 021719639X