Tolkien's Lost Chaucer

Tolkien's Lost Chaucer uncovers the story of an unpublished and previously unknown book by the author of The Lord of the Rings. Tolkien worked between 1922 and 1928 on his Clarendon edition Selections from Chaucer's Poetry and Prose, and though never completed, its 160 pages of commentary reveals much of his thinking about language and storytelling when he was still at the threshold of his career as an epoch-making writer of fantasy literature. Drawing upon other new materials such as his edition of the Reeve's Tale and his Oxford lectures on the Pardoner's Tale, this book reveals Chaucer as a major influence upon Tolkien's literary imagination

Author: John M. Bowers
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 12/01/2019
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.30w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780198842675