{"product_id":"9780571230655-reading-chaucers-poems","title":"Reading Chaucer's Poems","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA Guided Selection\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eGeoffrey Chaucer is rightly regarded as  the Father of English Literature. His accessible new selection includes a linking commentary on the  chosen texts, together with a comprehensive line-for-line glossary that  makes this the most approachable and accessible introduction to Chaucer  that readers can buy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eGeoffrey Chaucer is rightly regarded as  the Father of English Literature. His observant wit, his narrative skill  and characterization, his linguistic invention, have been a well from  which the language's greatest writers have drawn: Shakespeare, Pope,  Austen, Dickens among them. A courtier, a trade emissary and diplomat, he fought in the  Hundred Years War and was captured and ransomed; his marriage into the  family of John of Gaunt ensured his influence in political society. For  more than a decade, he was engaged on his most famous work of all, \u003ci\u003eThe Canterbury Tales\u003c\/i\u003e, until his death around 1400; there is no record of the precise date or the circumstances of his demise, despite vivid and colourful speculation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBernard O'Donoghue is one of the country's leading poets and  medievalists. His accessible new selection includes a linking commentary on the  chosen texts, together with a comprehensive line-for-line glossary that  makes this the most approachable and accessible introduction to Chaucer  that readers can buy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57356371394934,"sku":"9780571230655","price":12.97,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_40024720.jpg?v=1771875840","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780571230655-reading-chaucers-poems","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}