by Geoffrey Chaucer · Oxford University Press · tapa dura · ISBN 9780198313120
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«The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales» is Geoffrey Chaucer's verse prologue, published by Oxford University Press in hardback and in English.
The book contains the general prologue of The Canterbury Tales, with the English text accompanied by notes and commentary to aid reading and place it in its historical and literary context. It is a study edition of Geoffrey Chaucer's text, aimed at those approaching medieval English literature.
1917 edition with 96 pages, prepared by Walter W. Skeat. This is the third revised edition published by Oxford University Press.
Intended for students of English literature and for readers approaching Chaucer's medieval work for the first time, with a didactic focus.
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.
