Tolkien's Lost Chaucer uncovers the story of an unpublished and previously unknown book by the author of The Lord of the Rings. It reveals how major episodes from the trilogy were inspired by Tolkien's editing and teaching of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.
Tolkien's Lost Chaucer uncovers the story of an unpublished and previously unknown book by the author of The Lord of the Rings. It reveals how major episodes from the trilogy were inspired by Tolkien's editing and teaching of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.
John M. Bowers is an internationally known scholar of medieval English literature with books on Chaucer, Langland, and the Gawain Poet. Educated at Duke, Virginia, and Oxford where he was a Rhodes Scholar, he taught at Caltech and Princeton before settling at the University of Nevada Las Vegas. His work has been supported by fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, and the Great Courses released his lecture series The Western Literary Canon in Context.
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1: Prologue: Concerning Chaucer 2: Unexpected Journeys 3: Four Chaucerians: Walter W. Skeat, Kenneth Sisam, George Gordon, and C.S. Lewis 4: Tolkien as Editor: Text and Glossary 5: The Chaucerian Incubus: The Notes 6: Tolkien as Chaucerian: The Reeve's Tale 7: Chaucer in Middle-Earth Appendices Works Cited
1: Prologue: Concerning Chaucer 2: Unexpected Journeys 3: Four Chaucerians: Walter W. Skeat, Kenneth Sisam, George Gordon, and C.S. Lewis 4: Tolkien as Editor: Text and Glossary 5: The Chaucerian Incubus: The Notes 6: Tolkien as Chaucerian: The Reeve's Tale 7: Chaucer in Middle-Earth Appendices Works Cited
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