|
Dream Visions and Other Poems (Norton Critical Editions)
|
| Price: | $12.15 & eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping on orders over $25. Details |
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Ships from and sold by Amazon.com
63 new or used available from $7.39
Average customer review:
Product Description
This Norton Critical Edition presents Chaucer’s four dream visions and selected shorter poems and is suitable for both beginning and advanced students. The texts are extensively glossed and are accompanied by individual introductions and explanatory annotations. A lightly regularized system of spellings has been adopted. No prior knowledge of Chaucer is assumed.
“Contexts” connects the poems to their classical and medieval foundations and includes works by Virgil, Ovid, Cicero, Boethius, Dante, and Boccaccio, among others.
From the wealth of scholarly work available, the editor has chosen for “Criticism” six essays that address the poems’ central themes. Contributors include Charles Muscatine, A. C. Spearing, R. T. Lenaghan, Richard Firth Green, Elaine Tuttle Hansen, and Steven Kruger.
A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included. .
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #183274 in Books
- Published on: 2006-12-13
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 400 pages
Editorial Reviews
About the Author
Kathryn L. Lynch is Katharine Lee Bates and Sophie Chantal Hart Professor of English at Wellesley College. She is the author of The High Medieval Dream Vision: Poetry, Philosophy, and Literary Form and Chaucer’s Philosophical Dream Visions and editor of Chaucer’s Cultural Geography. Her articles have appeared in, among other publications, The Chaucer Review, Studies in the Age of Chaucer, and Speculum.
Customer Reviews
Superb edition--new standard ed. for Chaucer's dream visions
Besides the excellent, scrupulously edited texts and Lynch's thorough notes and rich-though-brief introductions, this new edition contains a concise and incredibly useful guide to Chaucer's pronunciation that is alone worth the price of the book. The best edition for the undergraduate or professional scholar.
Drean Visions and Other Poems (Norton Critical Edition)
Though it says 'A lightly modernized system of spellings has been adopted.', it is a bit too much modernization in spelling, it seems to me.
Criticism is very useful. After all, this is for the novice.
