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Troilus and Criseyde. [With Commentary Volume]. 1250 COPIES WERE PRINTED
de CHAUCER Geoffrey
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Folio Society,, [2011]. 2 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus, on Rigolette Panna paper, with decorative title and borders,, and 5 full-page illustrations; main work handsomely bound in black full goatskin, elaborately blocked and lettered in gilt to a design by Neil Gower, gilt edges, silk marker; Commentary Volume bound in boards with backram back, the two volumes housed in publisher's solander case. EDITION LIMITED TO 1250 COPIES. Sumptuous Folio Society reissue of the original Golden Cockerel Press edition of 1927. The Commentary Volume contains essays by Roderick Cave on the history of the Golden Cockerel Press and Professor Barry Windeatt on the sources, structure and interpretation of the poem.
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Geoffrey Chaucer was born in London, the son of a wine-merchant, in about 1342, and as he spent his life in royal government service his career happens to be unusually well documented. By 1357 Chaucer was a page to the wife of Prince Lionel, second son of Edward III, and it was while in the prince's service that Chaucer was ransomed when captured during the English campaign in France in 1359-60. Chaucer's wife Philippa, whom he married c. 1365, was the sister of Katherine Swynford, the mistress (c. 1370) and third wife (1396) of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, whose first wife Blanche (d. 1368) is commemorated in Chaucer's ealrist major poem, The Book of the Duchess . From 1374 Chaucer worked as controller of customs on wool in the port of London, but between 1366 and 1378 he made a number of trips abroad on official business, including two trips to Italy in 1372-3 and 1378. The influence of Chaucer's encounter with Italian literature is felt in the poems he wrote in the late 1370's and early 1380s – The House of Fame , The Parliament of Fowls and a version of The Knight's Tale – and finds its fullest expression in Troilus and Criseyde . In 1386 Chaucer was member of parliament for Kent, but in the same year he resigned his customs post, although in 1389 he was appointed Clerk of the King's Works (resigning in 1391). After finishing Troilus and his translation into English prose of Boethius' De consolatione philosophiae , Chaucer started his Legend of Good Women . In the 1390s he worked on his most ambitious project, The Canterbury Tales , which remained unfinished at his death. In 1399 Chaucer leased a house in the precincts of Westminster Abbey but died in 1400 and was buried in the Abbey. Nevill Coghill (1899–1980) held many appointments at Oxford University. His translation of Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde is also published by Penguin Classics.
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- Troilus and Criseyde. [With Commentary Volume]. 1250 COPIES WERE PRINTED
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- CHAUCER Geoffrey
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