{"product_id":"tolkiens-lost-chaucer-hardcover","title":"Tolkien's Lost Chaucer - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJohn M. Bowers\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTolkien's Lost Chaucer\u003c\/em\u003e uncovers the story of an unpublished and previously unknown book by the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Lord of the Rings\u003c\/em\u003e. Tolkien worked between 1922 and 1928 on his Clarendon edition \u003cem\u003eSelections from Chaucer's Poetry and Prose, \u003c\/em\u003e 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 \u003cem\u003eReeve's Tale\u003c\/em\u003e and his Oxford lectures on the \u003cem\u003ePardoner's Tale\u003c\/em\u003e, this book reveals Chaucer as a major influence upon Tolkien's literary imagination.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJohn M. Bowers, \u003cem\u003eProfessor of English, University of Nevada Las Vegas\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJohn 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 \u003cem\u003eThe Western Literary Canon in Context\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 336\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 9.3 x 6.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 01, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47454585585842,"sku":"9780198842675","price":55.42,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/d8ea7ca06d9fd5e9b2e810700c6e96a8.webp?v=1778855045","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/tolkiens-lost-chaucer-hardcover","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}