This Passing World - Herzog, Michael
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London, 1398. A nearly 60 year old Geoffrey Chaucer is unexpectedly drawn into the impending duel between Henry Bolingbroke and Thomas Mowbray. To protect himself, he decides to keep a journal that chronicles the final two and a half years of his life, providing us with a fascinating look into late 14th century England, the women and men this pre-eminent medieval English poet loves, the intrigues of the Richardian court, and what compels someone who holds some of the most important jobs in the English bureaucracy to spend his nights writing poetry that is still being read and studied 600 years after his death.…mehr

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London, 1398. A nearly 60 year old Geoffrey Chaucer is unexpectedly drawn into the impending duel between Henry Bolingbroke and Thomas Mowbray. To protect himself, he decides to keep a journal that chronicles the final two and a half years of his life, providing us with a fascinating look into late 14th century England, the women and men this pre-eminent medieval English poet loves, the intrigues of the Richardian court, and what compels someone who holds some of the most important jobs in the English bureaucracy to spend his nights writing poetry that is still being read and studied 600 years after his death.
Autorenporträt
Michael B. Herzog was born in Romania in the last year of WW II, grew up in post-war Germany and immigrated to the US at the age of nine. He earned a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Washington and spent forty-five years as a professor and administrator at Gonzaga University. A Danforth Fellow, he has won multiple teaching awards, has written scholarly articles as well as two plays based on medieval poems, and served as Chief of Staff to the President at Gonzaga. While he was teaching the poetry of Geoffrey Chaucer for more than three decades, he became increasingly fascinated with the life and art of this pre-eminent medieval poet of England, and began the long process of creating a novel that would capture the spirit and the reality of this remarkable courtier and poet while honoring the work and legacy of an individual who both captured and shaped English culture more than any other author before Shakespeare. Professor Emeritus Herzog is currently working on "completing," in modern English prose, Chaucer's unfinished masterwork: "The Canterbury Tales."