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Chaucer and His Times By: Grace E. Hadow |
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CHAUCER AND HIS TIMES BY GRACE E. HADOW LONDON WILLIAMS & NORGATE HENRY HOLT & Co., NEW YORK CANADA: WM. BRIGGS, TORONTO INDIA: R. & T. WASHBOURNE, LTD. 1914 HOME UNIVERSITY LIBRARY OF MODERN KNOWLEDGE Editors : HERBERT FISHER, M.A., F.B.A, LL.D. PROF. GILBERT MURRAY, D.LITT., LL.D., F.B.A. PROF. J. ARTHUR THOMSON, M.A., LL.D. PROF. WILLIAM T. BREWSTER, M.A. (Columbia University, U.S.A.) NEW YORK HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY CHAUCER AND HIS TIMES BY GRACE E. HADOW LECTURER IN ENGLISH, LADY MARGARET HALL, OXFORD; LATE READER IN ENGLISH, BRYN MAWR COLLEGE, U.S.A. LONDON WILLIAMS AND NORGATE The following volumes of kindred interest have already been published in this Library : 43. English Literature: Mediæval. By Prof. W. P. Ker. 13. Mediæval Europe. By H. W. C. Davis, M.A. 45. The English Language. By L. Pearsall Smith, M.A. 35. Landmarks in French Literature. By G. L. Strachey. First Printed April 1914 CONTENTS CHAP. PAGE NOTES ON CHAUCER'S USE OF 'E' vi I CHAUCER'S LIFE AND TIMES 7 II CHAUCER'S WORKS 32 III CHAUCER'S TREATMENT OF HIS SOURCES 69 IV CHAUCER'S CHARACTER DRAWING 106 V CHAUCER'S HUMOUR 143 VI CHAUCER'S DESCRIPTIVE POWER 173 VII SOME VIEWS OF CHAUCER'S ON MEN AND THINGS 196 VIII CHAUCER'S INFLUENCE 229 BIBLIOGRAPHY 254 INDEX 255 NOTES ON CHAUCER'S USE OF 'E' 1. Final e is usually sounded in Chaucerian verse, but ( a ) it is slurred over before a word beginning with a vowel, e.g. I noldë sette [slur] at al that noyse [slur] a grote; before certain words beginning with h , such as he ; any part of the verb to have ; the adverbs heer , how , and a mute h as in honour e.g. Tho redde [slur] he me how Sampson loste [slur] his heres: ( b ) it is sometimes dropped in certain words in common use such as were , hadde , wolde , etc. e.g. Wolde [slur] go to bedde, [slur] he wolde [slur] no lenger tarie. 2. Middle e is sometimes dropped: e.g. hav(e)nes. 3. Final e should always be sounded at the end of a line. These notes are based on the grammatical hints given in Professor Skeat's Introduction to his single volume edition of Chaucer's complete works (Clarendon Press, 1901), from which the illustrations in this book are also drawn. To his researches and to those of Professors Lounsbury and Ten Brink, and of the members of the Chaucer Society, all students of Chaucer must gratefully acknowledge their indebtedness. In quoting from Chaucer I have kept to Professor Skeat's spelling. All attempts to modernise Chaucerian verse inevitably result in destroying something of the charm and melody of the original. Readers whose eyes are not accustomed to the forms of Middle English will find practically all difficulty disappear if they read the passages aloud with modern pronunciation. With other Middle English and Scottish poets I have reluctantly taken greater liberties, since their language is often more remote from the speech of to day. An example of the original Scottish forms will be found on p. 240. G. E. H. CHAUCER AND HIS TIMES CHAPTER I CHAUCER'S LIFE AND TIMES "The biography of Chaucer is built upon doubts and thrives upon perplexities" according to one of the most famous of Chaucer scholars, and the more carefully we consider the evidence upon which this statement is based, the more fully do we find it endorsed... Continue reading book >>
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