{"product_id":"tolkien-on-chaucer-1913-1959-hardcover","title":"Tolkien on Chaucer, 1913-1959 - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJohn M. Bowers\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003ePeter Steffensen\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTolkien on Chaucer, 1913-59\u003c\/em\u003e traces J. R. R. Tolkien's critical engagements with Geoffrey Chaucer from his undergraduate Oxford essays in 1913 to remarks in his retirement lecture in 1959. Reprinted with both Tolkien's own annotations and new notes from the authors, this book analyses his major articles such as  \"Chaucer as a Philologist: \u003cem\u003eThe Reeve's Tale\u003c\/em\u003e\", as well as his unpublished edition of the \u003cem\u003eReeve's Tale\u003c\/em\u003e and his lectures on the \u003cem\u003eClerk's Tale\u003c\/em\u003e and the \u003cem\u003ePardoner's Tale\u003c\/em\u003e. Though his scholarship was best known for his work on Beowulf, Tolkien was also an expert on Geoffrey Chaucer. He lectured on Chaucer, edited Chaucer, and published essays on Chaucer. \u003cem\u003eTolkien on Chaucer, 1913-59\u003c\/em\u003e reprints many of these works for the first time, and documents Tolkien's career-long engagement with the poet and traces his influence in Tolkien's own works. Bowers and Steffensen reveal how the \u003cem\u003eReeve's Tale\u003c\/em\u003e was a source for Tolkien's description of Merry and Pippin's battle with Saruman, and how the \u003cem\u003ePardoner's Tale\u003c\/em\u003e influenced Tolkien's own story of men fighting to the death over a gold treasure. Chaucer emerges as a major source of inspiration for Tolkien's creative writings and profoundly formative in the creation of \u003cem\u003eThe Lord of the Rings\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn M. Bowers, \u003cem\u003eProfessor of English, University of Nevada\u003c\/em\u003e, Peter Steffensen, \u003cem\u003eInstructor of English, Bishop Gorman High School\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJohn M. Bowers has published some twenty Chaucerian articles, and his books include \u003cem\u003eChaucer and Langland: The Antagonistic Tradition\u003c\/em\u003e (2007) and, with Oxford University Press, \u003cem\u003eTolkien's Lost Chaucer\u003c\/em\u003e (2019). He was a Rhodes Scholar at Merton College, Tolkien's Oxford college, and his work has been supported by NEH and Guggenheim Fellowships. He has also published a lecture series for Great Courses on \u003cem\u003eThe Western Literary Canon in Context\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePeter Steffensen received his BA and MA in English from Georgia State University and his PhD from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He specializes in Middle English Literature and currently teaches English at Bishop Gorman High School.\u003cbr\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 328\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 25, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53139812679987,"sku":"9780192848888","price":186.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/yWGjtnCXYw9780192848888.webp?v=1773729981","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/tolkien-on-chaucer-1913-1959-hardcover","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}