Chaucer by George Kane
Sir Adolphus William Ward FBA (2 December 1837 in Hampstead, London - 19 June 1924) was an English historian and man of letters. Ward's major work is his standard History of English Dramatic Literature to the Age of Queen Anne (1875), re-edited after a thorough revision in three volumes in 1899. He also wrote The House of Austria in the Thirty Years' War (1869), Great Britain and Hanover: Some Aspects of the Personal Union (1899), and The Electress Sophia and the Hanoverian Succession (1903) (2nd ed. 1909). He also wrote the book Germany, 1815-1890 which has 3 volumes. Ward edited George Crabbe's Poems (2 vols., 1905-1906) and Alexander Pope's Poetical Works (1869); he wrote the volumes on Geoffrey Chaucer and Charles Dickens in the English Men of Letters series.
George Kane was Emeritus Professor of English Language and Medieval Literature in the University of London, where he taught for thirty years. He was twice awarded the Sir Israel Gollancz Memorial Prize of the British Academy (in 1963 and 1999).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780192875952 |
| ISBN 10 | 0192875957 |
| Title | Chaucer |
| Author | George Kane |
| Series | Past Masters S |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 1984-10-18 |
| Number of pages | 128 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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