{"product_id":"the-portable-chaucer-revised-edition-paperback","title":"The Portable Chaucer: Revised Edition - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the fourteenth century Geoffrey Chaucer, who served three kings as a customs official and special envoy, virtually invented English poetry. He did so by wedding the language of common speech to metrical verse, creating a medium that could accommodate tales of courtly romance, bawdy \u003ci\u003efabliaux\u003c\/i\u003e, astute psychological portraiture, dramatic monologues, moral allegories, and its author's astonishing learning in fields from philosophy to medicine and astrology. Chaucer's accomplishment is unequalled by any poet before Shakespeare and--in \u003ci\u003eThe Canterbury Tales\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTroilus and Cressida\u003c\/i\u003e--ranks with that of the great English novelists. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBoth \u003ci\u003eThe Canterbury Tales\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTroilus and Cressida\u003c\/i\u003e are presented complete in this anthology, in fresh modern translations by Theodore Morrison that convey both the gravity and gaiety of the Middle English originals. \u003ci\u003eThe Portable Chaucer\u003c\/i\u003e also contains selections from \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Duchess, The House of Fame, The Bird's Parliament\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Legend of Good Women\u003c\/i\u003e, together with short poems. Morrison's introduction is vital for its insights into Chaucer as man and artist, and as a product of the Middle Ages whose shrewdness, humor, and compassion have a wonderfully contemporary ring.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51378373525727,"sku":"9780140150810","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/HOP_XhL5cZ9780140150810.webp?v=1789254531","url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/products\/the-portable-chaucer-revised-edition-paperback","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}