Word: gardners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...astonishingly low: a dealer purchased the pages for ? 1,700, then about $4,000, for Manhattan Collector Norman Armour Jr., who has just allowed the Lewis Carroll Society to print a clothbound edition of 750 copies plus a paperback version. The little volume is introduced and amplified by Martin Gardner, author of the classic Annotated Alice...
...Gardner, "the discovery is an event of significance not only for Carrollians, but for anyone interested in language, humor, the adventures of Alice or, for that matter, wasps." The insect in question is a rheumatic old party who speaks in allusions and complains in rhyme...
...infers, largely from Chaucer's poetry, that the author of The Canterbury Tales was shrewd, playful, funny, a mocker, but even-tempered, a religious man capable of what Gardner slyly calls "willing suspension of belief." Though the poet, as a matter of convention, denied all personal knowledge of love, his love poetry was strongly sexual...
Underlying Chaucer's sturdy, balanced genius, Gardner sees a characteristically medieval conviction that the world made sense. Chaucer viewed man as a "responsible, moral agent in a baffling but orderly universe." Yet his finest work was full of ironical laughter; a "canterbury tale," in medieval slang...
Readers of The Life and Times may find themselves hooked on Chaucer. For those who do, Gardner has thoughtfully and simultaneously provided a sterner volume of criticism: The Poetry of Chaucer (408 pages; Southern Illinois University Press...