LEADER 03599cam a2200433 i 4500001 9988685433506421 005 20240711103349.0 008 140428s2014 nyuab b 001 0beng^^ 010 2014004523 020 9780670026432 (hbk.) : |c$28.95 020 0670026433 (hbk.) 035 (NjP)8868543-princetondb 035 |z(NjP)Voyager8868543 035 (OCoLC)ocn870919601 040 DLC |erda |beng |cDLC |dIG# |dYDXCP |dBTCTA |dBDX |dOCLCF |dUPZ |dOCLCO |dABG |dBUR |dVP@ 043 e-uk-en 049 PULJ 050 00 PR1905 |b.S77 2014 082 00 821/.1B |223 084 BIO007000HIS037010LIT011000 |2bisacsh 100 1 Strohm, Paul, |d1938- |eauthor. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88245267 245 10 Chaucer's tale : |b1386 and the road to Canterbury / |cPaul Strohm. 264 1 New York, New York : |bViking, |c2014. 300 xv, 284 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : |bcolor illustrations, maps (some color) ; |c22 cm 336 text |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |2rdamedia 338 volume |2rdacarrier 504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-277) and index. 505 0 Chaucer's crisis -- A married man -- Aldgate -- The wool men -- In Parliament -- The other Chaucer -- The problem of fame -- Kent and Canterbury -- Laureate Chaucer. 520 A "microbiography of Chaucer that tells the story of the tumultuous year that led to the creation of The Canterbury Tales"-- |cProvided by publisher. 520 This is the eye-opening story of the birth of one of the most celebrated literary creations of the English language. The middle-aged Chaucer did not enjoy the literary celebrity he has today--far from it. He was living quietly in London with a modest bureaucratic post, writing poetry for a small audience of intimate friends. For more than a decade, Chaucer had stayed precariously afloat in London's fierce factional politics. Aided by a strategic marriage and ties to the court of Richard II, he had enjoyed favor from two envied and despised men: the overbearing John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, and the unscrupulous wool profiteer and London Mayor, Nicholas Brembre. Suddenly, swept up by events beyond his own control, he lost it all. During the autumn of 1386 he was expelled from his London dwelling, humiliated in Parliament, pressured out of his job, and forced into exile in Kent. Unbroken by these worldly reversals, Chaucer pursued a new life in art. Cut off from his London audience, he invented a portable one--a tale-swapping pilgrim band. He converted his previously private literary career into a public one, in the grandest of terms. At the loneliest time of his life, Chaucer made the revolutionary decision to keep writing, to change the nature of what he was writing, and to write for a national audience, for posterity, and for fame.--From publisher description. 600 10 Chaucer, Geoffrey, |d-1400. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79027228 600 10 Chaucer, Geoffrey, |d-1400. |tCanterbury tales. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2010051825 650 0 Poets, English |yMiddle English, 1100-1500 |vBiography. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008109441 651 0 England |xSocial life and customs |y1066-1485. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043320 651 0 England |xSocial conditions |y1066-1485. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043312 902 yj |bs |6a |7m |dv |f1 |e20141216 904 yj |ba |hm |cb |e20141216 914 (OCoLC)ocn870919601 |bOCoLC |cmatch |d20240703 |eprocessed |f870919601