David Hopkins, Tom Mason

Gebundenes Buch

Chaucer in the Eighteenth Century

The Father of English Poetry

Beschreibung

Examines how the poetry of Chaucer continued to give pleasure in the eighteenth century despite the immense linguistic, literary, and cultural shifts that had occurred between the fourteenth and eighteenth centuries.

Autor

David Hopkins read Classics and English at Cambridge and wrote his PhD (on 'Dryden's Translations from Ovid') at the University of Leicester. He taught in the English Department at the University of Bristol from 1977, eventually becoming a Professor (now Emeritus) of English Literature. Most of his published work has been concerned with English poetry and literary criticism of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and with the relations between English poetry and the Greek and Roman Classics. He is the author of books on Milton and Dryden, and co-editor of Dryden's poems and of the five-volume Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature. Tom Mason read English at Oxford and wrote his PhD at Cambridge. He taught in the English Department at the University of Bristol from 1978. Most of his published work has been concerned with English poetry and literary criticism of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 162mm x 34mm
• Gewicht: 857g
• ISBN-13: 9780192862624
• ISBN-10: 0192862626
• Artikelnr.: 66166589