Tolkien’s Lost Chaucer - John M. Bowers torrent

Category: Autobiography & Biographies, Literature
Language: English
Keywords: J.R.R. Tolkien Literary History & Criticism Literature & Fiction Writing Writings

Written by John M. Bowers
Read by Jennifer M. Dixon
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 128 Kbps

Tolkien’s Lost Chaucer uncovers the story of an unpublished and previously unknown book by the author of The Lord of the Rings. Tolkien worked between 1922 and 1928 on his Clarendon edition Selections from Chaucer’s Poetry and Prose, and though never completed, its 160 pages of commentary reveals much of his thinking about language and storytelling when he was still at the threshold of his career as an epoch-making writer of fantasy literature. Drawing upon other new materials such as his edition of “The Reeve’s Tale” and his Oxford lectures on “The Pardoner’s Tale”, this book reveals Chaucer as a major influence upon Tolkien’s literary imagination