Troylus and Criseyde [antikvár]

NOTE ON THE AUTHOR AND EDITORgeoffrey chaucer, the son of a wine merchant in London, was born about 1343 or 1344. He was an omnivorous reader of Ladn, French and Italian Hterature, and of works of science, philosophy and religion. Apart from the Canterbury Tales he wrote several long and distinguished poems - the Book of the Duchess, the House of Fame, the Parliament of Fowls, Troylus and Criseyde and the Legend of Good Women. He also made a prose translation of the Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius and of a treatise on the astrolabe. Yet the writing of poetry and prose was often a spare-time occupation for Chaucer, who was successively a member of the King's Household, a soldier, a diplomatic envoy to France and Italy, a high customs official, a justice of the peace, a member of parliament, and Clerk of the King's works. The knowledge of men and women gained from these activities is reflected in the psychological complexity of the principal characters in Troylus and Criseyde.MALDWYN MILLS is an Emeritus Professor of English in the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. His chief research interests are in Chaucer and in the Middle English Romances; among his publications are editions of Lybeaus Desconus (1969), Guy of Warwick fragments (with Daniel Huws, 1974), Horn Childe (1988), and, in Everyman, Six Middle English Romances (1973)5 and Ywain and Gawain, Sir Percyvell of Gales, The Anturs of Arther (1992).