{"product_id":"chaucer-his-life-his-works-his-world-9780449903414","title":"Chaucer: His Life, His Works, His World","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn award-winning biography that recreates the public, private, and poetic life of Geoffrey Chaucer, the father of English poetry and a central man of his age\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Chaucer was born in the latter half of the fourteenth century, an age of revolution and devastation when Europe was convulsed by the Hundred Years' War, the Black Death, and the social and intellectual upheavals that marked the \"autumn of Feudalism.\" The son of a wealthy London vintner, he maneuvered his way into the turbulent courts of Edward III and Richard II, and thus, without holding noble rank himself, he was able to witness the violent drama of royal power. It was, as Howard demonstrates, the perfect vantage point for a poet. Chaucer's own poetic development from the mannered medieval style of \u003ci\u003eThe Book of the Duchess\u003c\/i\u003e to the rich, comic, human complexity of \u003ci\u003eThe Canterbury Tales\u003c\/i\u003e reflects the transformation of his world. With \u003ci\u003eThe Canterbury Tales\u003c\/i\u003e and the darker, more formal epic \u003ci\u003eTroilus and Criseyde\u003c\/i\u003e, Chaucer established English for all time as a language of literature. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003e\"A thoughtful, thorough book that conjures up the living presence of England's first great poet more concretely than anybody has ever done before.\"--\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ballantine Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/11\/1989\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780449903414\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 676\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.14lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.96h x 6.22w x 1.62d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e National Book Critics Circle Award - Winner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/25\/1988\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Donald R. Howard","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":38012698656949,"sku":"9780449903414","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_646df815-4121-48e3-8cf0-cf191200cba6.jpg?v=1609137413","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/chaucer-his-life-his-works-his-world-9780449903414","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}