by Geoffrey Chaucer · Cambridge University Press · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780521046299
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«The General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales» is the medieval poem by Geoffrey Chaucer, published by Cambridge University Press in paperback, in English.
The prologue presents pilgrims travelling from Southwark to Canterbury who take part in a storytelling contest along the way. Through his portraits, Geoffrey Chaucer traces an ironic and critical view of fourteenth-century English society, especially the Church.
It belongs to the Selected Tales from Chaucer series, edited by James Winny; the Middle English text is accompanied by an introduction, notes and glossary, and this edition was published in 1965.
Edition aimed at students of English literature and readers wishing to read Chaucer in Middle English.
Geoffrey Chaucer was an English poet, writer and civil servant best known for The Canterbury Tales. He has been called the 'father of English literature', or alternatively, the 'father of English poetry'. He was the first writer to be buried in what has since become Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey.
