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Charles A. Owen, Jr.
Discussions of the Canterbury Tales.
Boston: D. C. Heath & Co., 1961.
Series: Discussions of Literature.
[No ISBN].
Binding: paperback, perfect bound.
Printed in the USA.
Size: 162x235x7mm.
Page count: ix,110pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition poor to fair: looks very battered, some scuffs and scratches on the covers, edges worn, corners curled and creased throughout; the spine is scuffed and discoloured, but not creased from reading, and the binding is sound internally; text appears to be free of marking.

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Weight without packaging: 193g.

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A mix of short extracts from longer books with a few essays reprinted from journals. Contents:
Spenser, from The Faerie Queene;
Milton, from Il Penseroso;
Dryden, from Preface to the Fables;
Coleridge, from Table Talk;
Arnold, from Study of Poetry;
Hoffman, Chaucer’s prologue to pilgrimage — the 2 voices;
Donaldson, Chaucer the pilgrim;
Baldwin, Chronology — space-time in the Prologue;
Malone, The host;
Kittredge, The Shipman & the Prioress;
Underwood, First of the Canterbury Tales;
Tillyard, Plot obliquity in Miller’s Tale;
Preston, Tales of the Man of Law & Clerk;
Muscatine, Mixed style — Nun’s Priest’s Tale — Chaucer the the 15th century;
Shumaker, Alisoun in Wander-land — Chaucer’s mind & literary method;
Speirs, from Chaucer the Maker;
Owen, Crucial passages in 5 of the Canterbury Tales- irony & symbol;
Miller, Definition by comparison — Chaucer & Lawrence;
Bronson, Chaucer’s audience;
Bloomfield, Chaucer’s sense of history;
Lowes, The human comedy.

Notes: at foot of page
Tables: no
Illustrations: no
Maps & plans: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: no
Index: no 

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