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Life and Writings of Geoffrey Chaucer CD Course (The Great Courses)

(12 lectures, 30 minutes/lecture) Course Lecture Titles 1. Introduction to Chaucer's Life and World 2. The Scope of Chaucer's Work 3. Chaucer's Language 4. Chaucerian Themes and Terms 5. Troilus and CriseydeLove and Philosophy 6. Troilus and CriseydeHistory and Fiction 7. The Canterbury TalesThe General Prologue 8. The Canterbury TalesThe First Fragment 9. The Wife of Bath 10. The Pardoner 11. Gods PlentyThe Variety of The Canterbury Tales 12. Chaucer's Living Influence

Imagine a writer who is equally at home with romantic adventure and devotional meditation, or who brings the fullest measure of brilliance to ribald comedy and grave tragedy alike.

Add a talent for creating unforgettable characters and keenly painting social relationships.

Top it all off with a gift for expression so pure and scintillating that no less an authority than Edmund Spenser was moved to laud this writer's works as a "well of English pure and undefiled."

Now you have Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340-1400), one of our grandest and most enduring poets; an architect of our vocabulary and our literary style.

By examining texts from his short love lyrics to the copious profusion of character and incident that is The Canterbury Tales, this course prepares you for the challenges of Chaucer's oeuvre, and provides an understanding of what makes him the "father" of English poetry.

With Stanford University's award-winning Professor Seth Lerer, you plumb the richness and depth of Chaucer's poetry and explore his life, the range of his work, and his impact on English language and literature.

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