Geoffrey Chaucer

Troilus and Criseyde Geoffrey Chaucer New edition

Marc Notes: A Colleagues book--T.p. verso.; Originally published: East Lansing, MI: Colleagues Press, 1989.; Includes bibliographical references (p. xxvi-xxxi). Publisher Marketing: Apparently a reprint of a 1989 edition of the poem for beginning Chaucer readers, based on A. C. Baugh's 1963 Chaucer's Major Poetry . Shoaf includes many marginal glosses, extensive annotations, a brief glossary of frequently occurring difficult words, and an introduction that sets the literary and historical context. Annotation c. Book News, Inc. Contributor Bio:  Chaucer, Geoffrey Often referred to as the father of English poetry, Geoffrey Chaucer was a fourteenth-century philosopher, alchemist, astrologer, bureaucrat, diplomat, and author of many significant poems. Chaucer's writing was influential in English literary tradition, as it introduced new rhyming schemes and helped develop the vernacular tradition--the use of everyday English--rather than the literary French and Latin, which were common in written works of the time. Chaucer's best-known--and most imitated--works include The Canterbury Tales, Troilus and Criseyde, The Book of the Duchess, and The House of Fame.