Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Chaucer
    Chaucer
    Chaucer
    Ebook262 pages3 hours

    Chaucer

    By Adolphus William Ward

    ()

    Read preview
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateJan 1, 1907
    Chaucer

    Read more from Adolphus William Ward

    Related authors

    Related to Chaucer

    Related ebooks

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      History’s Greatest Hits And Myths

      Jun 2, 2021

      In his new book, The History Makers, Richard Cohen tells a story from the golden age of historians’ rivalries. That was not so long ago – in the 1960s, when, he was told, the obituaries desk of the Daily Telegraph realised that they didn’t have an ob

      3 min read

    • Article

      The Foul-mouthed Miller And The Prim Prioress

      Jan 3, 2024

      HAT Geoffrey Chaucer’s ‘drasty rhyming is nat worth a toord’ (his ‘dirty rhyming isn’t worth a turd’), the Host’s pungent dismissal in Chaucer’s best-known, but incomplete poem The Canterbury Tales, is a verdict that, with good reason, posterity has

      4 min read

    • Article

      The History Behind The Last Duel

      Oct 29, 2021

      The History Behind The Last Duel
      4 min read

    • Article

      From The Trojan War To Conflict In Ukraine

      Nov 30, 2023

      THE YEAR 2023 HAS BEENrich in works composed in tempore belli. The most impressive is Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine (William Collins, £26) by General David Petraeus and the historian Andrew Roberts. This is an ambitious and

      6 min read

    • Article

      The Real Brideshead Revisited

      Mar 9, 2022

      ‘All the richness of your invention, the magical embroideries you fling around your characters cannot make me nostalgic about the world I knew in the 1920s. And yet it was the same world as you describe, or at any rate impinged on it. I was a debutan

      4 min read

    • Article

      Why Isn’t There A Historian Laureate?

      May 4, 2022

      The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee has been greeted with a steady thud of books by familiar names: Robert Hardman; Andrew Morton; Joanna Lumley. Historians have already published interim reports on the Queen – the volume of the Penguin Monarchs series on E

      3 min read

    • Article

      Sound And Fury

      Sep 4, 2023

      by Elizabeth Winkler (Simon & Schuster, $55 hb) The subtitle of Elizabeth Winkler’s witty, illuminating and possibly scandalous – depending on where you sit – book on a man who has been called Britain’s greatest export runs: “How doubting the Bard be

      2 min read

    • Article

      Book Reviews

      Mar 15, 2024

      By Edward L. Shaughnessy ISBN: 978-1350170377 Bloomsbury Publishing (2023) - £28.99 www.bloomsbury.com While a huge amount of literature exists on ancient China, from studies based on traditional histories to specific texts and archaeological discove

      6 min read

    • Article

      Exercice Agréable or Tantalizing Taste

      Aug 2, 2018

      In the eighteenth century, the French Société des Gens de Lettres led by Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d’Alembert, compiled their famous encyclopedia, announced as a “Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts, et des métiers” and written to offer

      4 min read

    • Article

      Private Devotion

      Sep 1, 2018

      Greetings from Angelus by Gershom Scholem (translated by Richard Sieburth). Archipelago Books, 2018, $14.00 paper. IN 1648—the year, according to the Zohar, destined to usher in the messianic era—a Smyrnan Jew by the name of Shabbatai Tzvi received

      5 min read

    • Article

      Samuel Pepys Would Have Been Huge on the Internet

      May 29, 2019

      Pepys’s fragmentary, digressive, contradictory, messy diary foreshadows our own individual self-fashioning. In Pepys we see Facebook; we see Twitter. The post Samuel Pepys Would Have Been Huge on the Internet appeared first on The Millions.

      13 min read

    • Article

      The Trauma Of War

      Jul 14, 2021

      The Trauma Of War
      8 min read

    • Article

      The Voice Of A Female Golden Age

      Jan 19, 2023

      The Voice Of A Female Golden Age
      10 min read

    • Article

      The Horror At Clinton Street HP Lovecraft In Brooklyn

      Aug 13, 2020

      Readers of HP Lovecraft’s disturbing weird fiction are often transported to some dangerous and disconcerting locales. There is, for example, Kadath in the Cold Waste, or the inaccessible Plateau of Leng, and perhaps most troubling – and unpronounceab

      14 min read

    • Article

      The Humanity Of Horace

      Nov 30, 2023

      IF I TOLD YOU THAT A COLLECTION OF POEMS written 2,000 years ago was sent by his wife to a man serving in the trenches of the First World War, and he replied to her that he was devoting five minutes a day amid the fighting to reading them, you might

      6 min read

    • Article

      Geoffrey Chaucer Note Asking For Time Off Work Identified As His Handwriting

      Jul 10, 2023

      A 14th-century bureaucratic document requesting time off work for a civil servant has been identified as the only surviving handwriting of Geoffrey Chaucer, revered as the father of English literature. While it was known that the individual seeking a

      2 min read

    • Article

      What Makes a Poet Difficult?

      May 28, 2019

      What Makes a Poet Difficult?
      6 min read

    • Article

      'Verdi' Takes A Lively Approach To Uncovering The Man Behind The Art

      Jul 4, 2018

      'The Man Revealed' is an introduction to Verdi, as a man rather than as a composer. Suchet takes great pains not to get bogged down in boring details or obscure music theory.

      3 min read

    • Article

      The Age Of Transformation

      Jan 19, 2023

      The Age Of Transformation
      9 min read

    • Article

      How The Sonnet Turns

      May 1, 2020

      This essay is adapted from a lecture delivered at the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, on January 10, 2010, at the winter residency. My thanks to The American Poetry Review for their graceful and gracious assistance in the adaptation

      30 min read

    Reviews for Chaucer

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      Chaucer - Adolphus William Ward

      {1^book_preview_excerpt.html\َȕLKFVYKVTʭ 5`"pqfJ?#9VFL2{/_}9/ko˧]w[t΍WX\T]ߍ:~8!^MF(=v?P]QvqgUq.ǡ6b|:ƢqG?aXpC{U-k}ዻJ򝶬O{:ykjC|8o0I& Cdbv]-Ehs7`}UC>|noѵzq~E!`+<2b葇׮ݎn.mt:뛋7Żͫw|vSۧ^Bw޽xO.?|#*.=uxw)苋|n޼.p/嫋Wy]E5Xۗ_o.rm/on.?\g/O_]<?]^xS|w_O}wsyߙ}9{p[St)%5,Fq3־f(5@m(uoCh#Uյli դ['Mh`>b[wc?^*Coط/7] +N8'b%]CC/ W޶ݡUqp%g\^!'Mqq}n,޽\+x)u7zmӿ{gzqY\}^||pyճkZv\_A.o>?k{]__o.V,dA֡nfdPY/W40rcs(hej5 7 Dw7oœ׮jC%Ml iP\_ưX1h4IMH[1Q*F"` U#Docə'.* rٖaӗChoNzR ;Lq{86_閄/(Dh_>9V:C?pw1* qXiG@&UcaIaQb{ؚIh݌yM X >ĻAaf;6`|ߎ@& xzWMiq~qB.h-KwY&ϋ^HNp*ћ*nN,7I8#'ZעpWG7I#|R  ^sPge|]Nf2|`:? :ƼqfBAhu7~"a鮻7H-`N&8 9(ANƉE' u_;l6{BWg |:l9Xk9 i8.(uKh O& ڈNC"KjNL_VWv m˪}F&V' eE/Oẛ3dʛw, '@Ct(*>~=¬ve%bJq]I~| /^Ёv\EI!N& fqͦkEv Ox  "IξuD&ތG6PXY#p!g R8(b4]_i-Y2#d6<<#|^q~T4_> Mq\ !]UeZG:h_o >%Rp׌bw '6HOG BWe-"NnѼB!:/W@|]Mv0:\aǸtJtMʀ {@wTrۨ0*k/xe{1.O.kW'8{u gۀJa)Xt|*8KrHo +TuH qSNF t K@۝p$߮ʪTz""Ein "M%*ZIp[Y&AT&}C|UJyvQz-]楦d8[# [Ud ;2X} TH01/9V/~e*͡-uDfZ]a6@4hSɬw(od%$z.<$o 7kKuao?e 3a/Gyi!6j[X1@fķ*W@eweS )tƦaT@&%F3KIM©wQD[}gky?M)Ѭ[ S>{?`LGq (e/|y̢ ZsmQ-89O=>C <JgCBP#ȹ[f(G{L4r8Lc/܇|< S\vxI/\UM[v)`QNyrvqܢ\NMIjBA- O$0Μ2`f)ԜLC6a@'FOֺi^] hϹm4h  q.tg><C ꋂ2VdrNraT$ۺ3 eUˊ.b Ͽ ^n2e"_++Vy##؞w&( S-Y 6\nQ[ԽI jCJot^X"_ĢNv'ض_F)B Q2;KNpU !:cA՜M=2$JUD0,!r4x?Qe~(uw(V;sf9 by'1we/&{XK!NDGJP܁7sQ$9φ^M<퉵̽ Ƥu~@:>;&H3M79):Yk͌8e2Oԡ>'[.f;,E;LBkC Tr<sI$9ן-xm#c{WNKFD̯o6л%F:a#iB YÿI{Sya,Xju)MeFt'5'wuVܹu~N|ԙհeopxMsAcq(徦7R0=@;С̅J`fdrI;uv`x7;Lk/Vx{ᱎ6 #Dsl,U-AXF4gھs=~n68΢l`>J'(Ǟ̵'yS_,͡]uVңts G T(Yi3 FYּ@:>'a&<Ǚ=@zHe< tYޓ aR/!9̸zژz'Y0rl\LH&7uJY%e=a)xg:E :=hsh%A8`JT ڧ ЄE#”P#['vn6/?*:A`Im?1 {hs@# 3YQgړ%(ߧfZ^s\%,5NrR~^01j&2Oך%*Ê.;R=R1 4z-f.y)D607,cM+o`İ 7O LҦ_e,?7 j9z&le.2wռiB𛕙 PQt"u77g,]gm?Q{,y![Rܱ^$ LKF,ӥT0^x'!@ c딪dg7X̊c1S]{;vT2^`u Ʊ/;g,`$UOpvcPʈTv=2 \[p\p' *@D#eN?;_,榄9c9~jrK+`kh:d،'I&ոm(sKDPϾLsH0U9fʨO+w݁J%ԠV9J߳TX(S8P0?.scՒpթT˙ju&T;ܱ ;O|+?6 %l"sZD$  OWo١5g-8}e[./(w0XŭגC|]k%byQ0 eNr!IդBM8ton?oGkJQ$&[me#nӰj-"BKfq(vD?,u>~5gH`ZK=K$#>Oϋg%xc&&1d^0V/Vt){gM\N-7KkeLJJ aS [Ev2zkW 7UzN/Hm`bs~ඎhdIBhv5UiZKz)Q5eJ5F'GRR뫹6)e`wc4TR\Y-RFGwL$KהĽ,cUNWL?gI:`0uBB6L'잻[dоJIצ-m/Wp*3[Cj22gXA:5n_^ު 8 sѮɲt*99p;wfM_T{l_]q1meI]d^< Ӽ1P oeR!l%L50)Z=NS%?290,>xWi'fقNPٚ!GW玙E 4Ь#հfT;-2 ƳPoP}k]t4sFJ 4I *jm!ZG;ݜA175@ 1k^*R:<:?״~J_]?g*󄳢qy7E]c*MͱAOw,rN$s}3 Xc[4C׶LYC%nI*'`"k9MvMSy9&,FSZkJ5߀V5{"H*1N)Zrx۵ C_2 6ɾIF-)"g՛]Ǚ`(аvu @B&I}ņ&OGsYgQ\&'#g P{s.jV3}ɶ:Ɇ@n\\跆#"Q[n ØnbCnH,\ʣkf}(cJ*WoR#ngo
      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1