1892 Studies in Chaucer: His Life and Writings

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First Edition, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

Complete in three volumes. First edition. With a portrait frontispiece to volume one. A detailed and comprehensive study of the life and work of Geoffrey Chaucer, an English poet, author, and civil servant who has been called the "father of English literature", or the "father of English poetry". Volume one explores the life, legend, and texts of Chaucer. Volume two explores The Romance of the Rose, the learning of Chaucer, and the relations of Chaucer to the English language and the religion of his time. Volume three comments on Chaucer in literary history and as a literary artist. Written by Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury, an American literary historian and critic. He was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.