Tolkien’s Lost Chaucer,
- Author / Editor
- Bowers, John M.
Tolkien’s Lost Chaucer,
- Published
- Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019.
- Physical Description
- xii, 310 pp.; 15 b&w illus.
- Description
- Reconstructs Tolkien’s efforts to co-edit (with George S. Gordon) a Clarendon student edition to have been titled "Selections from Chaucer’s Poetry and Prose"—never finished and long lost. Observes how Tolkien's extant notes and glossary to this incomplete text and other archival materials reflect the depth of his knowledge of Chaucer. Posits a wide range of Chaucerian influences on Tolkien and explores parallels between the two writers that offer insights into Tolkien's writing. Includes comments on Gordon, Walter W. Skeat, Kenneth Sisam, and C. S. Lewis as “Chaucerians,” and on Thomas Chaucer as executor for his father.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations
Chaucer's Life