Chaucer - A Beginner's Guide introduces you to the life and works of this eminent and prolific writer. By exploring some of his major works the writer shows the relevance of Chaucer today and helps you to develop your own responses to the poetry. Catherine Richardson's informative text includes the exploration of: how to read the poems in the form in which Chaucer wrote them. why Chaucer was so important to the development of English poetry Chaucer's poetry of warfare and chivalry How the critics of Chaucer can help us to understand his work.
- ISBN10 0340803614
- ISBN13 9780340803615
- Publish Date 30 November 2001
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 8 July 2006
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher John Murray Press
- Imprint John Murray Learning
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 96
- Language English