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...Morris’s Kelmscott Press Works of Geoffrey Chaucer (1896)....
...The Wife of Bath: A Biography by Marion Turner (Princeton University Press) Turner — the acclaimed biographer of Chaucer — shifts her gaze to one of the writer’s greatest characters: Alison of Bath....
...The Wife of Bath: A Biography by Marion Turner (Princeton) Turner lifts the lid on Chaucer’s most famous character, the first ordinary woman in English literature, who is explored against the reality of...
...What was the name of Sam Peckinpah’s breakthrough film of 1969, starring William Holden? As what is Harry Bailly better known in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales? Click here for the answers...
...Paul Strohm’s fine short book about Chaucer, The Poet’s Tale, mentions that the poet had three churches within a couple of hundred feet of his front door – a non-trivial detail....
...Designed in 1887 by William Bell, it has all the architectural flourishes of grand, industrial Victorian style, but the station fell foul of the Beeching Cuts in the 1960s, signalling, quite literally, the...
...One of a frieze of five parts commissioned by Sir Isaac Lowthian Bell for his dining room in Rounton Grange in Yorkshire, it depicts the story of Chaucer’s The Romaunt of the Rose, in which a pilgrim struggles...
...With the sinuous, ornamental woodcuts he made for the book, set within gilded borders, and the Gothic type designed by his friend William Morris, Burne-Jones hoped it would be “a pocket cathedral”....
...As late as the 19th century, when Christ Church was educating future prime ministers such as Robert Peel and William Gladstone, the governing body consisted of just the dean and eight canons, who paid themselves...
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...Zweifach is expected to join Williams & Connolly in 2019, a law firm he worked at for more than three decades before he joined Fox....
...It is primarily an adaptation of Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale about two Athenian cousins, Palamon and Arcite, who are inseparable friends and paragons of all the knightly virtues until they both fall for the...
...The gold standard for collectors of private press books in the UK is The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer now newly imprinted, published by the Kelmscott Press in 1896....
...The press published 23 of Morris’s own books, many medieval texts, and books by poets Morris admired — Keats, Shelley, Tennyson and Swinburne — and the monumental Chaucer....
...Alongside Mr Yiannopolous, their targets have also included works of literature by Geoffrey Chaucer and William Shakespeare, statues of divisive historical figures such as Cecil Rhodes and a lecturer at...
...You feel a nostalgia for it in Chaucer, and you feel it all through Shakespeare.” You feel this nostalgia for an older, lost England all through Housman as well....
...Francis Beaumont, who died a month before him at the age of just 31, was mourned as a lost genius and buried in Westminster Abbey beside Chaucer and Spenser, the greatest of English poets....
...Shakespeare, Chaucer, Newton, William Blake, TS Eliot, Ezra Pound. Peter Ackroyd has committed his life to the documentation of other lives....
...Today I am working on a book about Saint Catherine of Alexandria; tomorrow it could be William Burroughs.” The new small shop in Curzon Street is, admits Ed Maggs, “only a temporary solution”....
...Within the bosom of every old man, said the philosopher William James, there is a dead young poet. TS Eliot, as Robert Crawford suggests in his opening sentence, “was never young”....
...But at this time of year, it seems the old verities reassert themselves, at least for those, as Chaucer, the old second baseman, put it, “somdeel stape in age”....
...Sir, William Franklin’s letter (November 9) reminded me how much I should love to have lunch with the FT and astonish the readers (let alone your value-conscious finance department) and delight the interviewer...
...“I feel like our reality is William Gibson meets Toni Morrison, yet the way we’re interpreting the morality of immigrants is Chaucer.”...
...His overthrow of Latin preceded Geoffrey Chaucer’s in The Canterbury Tales by 80 years....
...We then get into a discussion on how much sex they had in Chaucer’s day, adultery, sin and forgiveness. I notice something strange. Now he’s not telling me he’s a dunce or an amateur....
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