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Publishing the Classics: A Brief History

Magazine article by Nigel Wilcockson; History Today, Vol. 53, April 2003

Subjects:

Book publishing--History, Classical literature

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

...church indeed. The history of classics publishing--at least in the...remembered for his editions of Chaucer and Malory, also produced English...Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to Churchill in 109 volumes...they represented: the Worlds Classics (1901), Collinss Pocket Classics...
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Classics Exorcised, School Excoriated

Magazine article by Ty Clevenger; Insight on the News, Vol. 12, March 25, 1996

Subjects:

Curriculum change--Public opinion, Georgetown University--Curricula

Collections: Entire Library

Classics exorcised, school excoriated by Ty Clevenger Georgetown Universitys decision to make classes on Shakespeare...substitute courses such as "History/Theories of Sexuality" and "Women, Revolution and Media" for offerings on Milton and Chaucer. The change led to the formation of a campus group that is asking alumni to withhold donations to the 207-year-old Catholic...
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It's the Rich Wot Get the Blame

Magazine article by Nick Cohen; New Statesman, Vol. 130, September 3, 2001

Subjects:

Business--Political aspects, United Kingdom--Demographic aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...Representation of Business in English Literature sifted the classics for evidence of anti-business bias. Once they started looking...trade.) The rest of the "great tradition" is a sorry affair. Chaucer - the feudal snob - would be blackballed from the Confederation...
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Heavy Meta

Magazine article by Ben Yagoda; American Scholar, Vol. 73, Summer 2004

Subjects:

Poetry--Criticism and interpretation

Collections: Entire Library

...frayed cultural cliche The self-reference I responded to in Chaucer and Shakespeare long ago acquired an academic moniker--"reflexivity...That Away from Me," Gershwin name-checks one of Irving Berlins classics: "The song is ended, but as the songwriter wrote / The Melody...
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Rereading

Magazine article by Pico Iyer; American Scholar, Vol. 68, Autumn 1999

Subjects:

Authors--Criticism and interpretation, Critics--Personal narratives, Lawrence, D.H.--Criticism and interpretation, The Man Who Died (Short fiction)--Criticism and interpretation, The Virgin and the Gypsy (Book)--Criticism and interpretation, Writers--Criticism and interpretation

Collections: Entire Library

...landscape all around; but the Penguin Modern Classics--The Magic Mountain, The Counterfeiters...Pasolini renditions of Boccaccio and Chaucer)--namely, grown-up European works of...expectation embodied by those Penguin Modern Classics. But it was something more than that...

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The Pounds 4.6M Tale; ..BUT OUR POTTED CHAUCER WON'T COST YOU A FORTUNE

Newspaper article by Anton Antonowicz; The Mirror (London, England), July 10, 1998

Subjects:

Chaucer, Geoffrey

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...God. Moral: You cant judge a book by its cover-price. HOW CHAUCER WROTE IT Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote The droghte...breath Exhales an air in every grove and heath. PENGUIN CLASSICS TRANSLATION. Get yours valued YOUR old books might not...
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Making Much Ado about a Lot; of Mice, Men and the Classics

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, July 15, 2004

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...reflected a knowledge of the language of the Bible, of the classics, sometimes the Greeks, even of Shakespeare. In our own time...required to take this sweeping survey course that began with Chaucer and ended with T.S. Eliot. They learned to understand, appreciate...
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The Essential Library; Night & Day

Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), November 24, 1996

Subjects:

Chaucer, Geoffrey

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...a profound debt to him. Now we depend on a translation; try the version in Worlds Classics, done in verse by David Wright (Oxford, pounds sterling3.99). Chaucer himself was buried at Westminster Abbey, in what became Poets Corner - so we can pay...
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Tradition and Innovation

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, September 16, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Allen, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES Chaucer and Shakespeare recognized the wisdom...best (Virgil, Dante, Boccaccio and other classics). And two pragmatic contemporary novelists...reshapes insistent echoes of beloved classics into a brain-squeezing tale of windswept...
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Less King Lear, More Queen Vic

Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), April 20, 2005

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...which is not covered at A-level." Mr Snapper stressed that the reforms would not mean abandoning "the classics" such as Dickens, Chaucer and Shakespeare. But it was important to break down the barriers between the study of literature and language...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: chaucer classics

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Proverb

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...exempla to drive home moral lessons and, as in the works of Chaucer, to add a humorous note. To the traditional folk sayings the Renaissance writers added the more literary proverbs from the classics; the most famous collection was Adagia by Erasmus (1500...
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Middle Ages

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...traditions. The complex currents, vitality, and religious fervor of medieval culture are evident in the classics of Dante and Chaucer . Gothic architecture developed most notably in the 12th cent., against a background of the cultural...

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