Chaucer Life-Records

Inbunden bok.

Mycket gott skick. Oxford University Press. 1966. 629 s. Inbunden. Nära nyskick. Skyddsomslag finns i gott skick. The Chaucer Life Records was Professor Crow's great life work. In assembling and editing the extensive documents relative to Chaucer's life many more than we have for Shakespeare or Milton he and Olson exercised the greatest perspicuity and care. Crow and Olson inherited from Manly and Rickert and Lilian Redstone a trove of materials, which they gave body, form, and clarity, and described in the lengthy preface. In the 629 packed pages presenting mostly Latin and French texts, reinforced with extensive footnotes and translations, errors are almost non-existent. The reviews were unanimously positive. As the well-known Chaucerian, D. S. Brewer, noted in his review (Notes & Queries 1967), "Contemplating the enormous labours whose result is before us, one must be pleased, because what has been done has been done forever." He adds the telling question, "How many scholars can say that of their work?" The question is rhetorical, and the answer, of course, is "Almost none." In the appraisal of the always-measured Morton Bloomfield, Chaucer Life Records is simply "an invaluable work" (Speculum 1967). .