Glending Olson, ’64
The Canterbury Tales, by Geoffrey Chaucer, edited by V.A. Kolve and
Glending Olson, ’64. Paperback, 600 pages, W.W. Norton, June 2005.
Olson, professor emeritus of English at Cleveland State University, is the
author of Literature as Recreation in the Later
Middle Ages and many articles on Chaucer and medieval literary theory.
This is a new and expanded edition of a volume in the Norton Critical Edition
series, featuring several of the tales in the original Middle English, with substantial
glossing and notes, as well as relevant medieval background material and a selection
of modern critical essays on Chaucer. It is written for first-time college-level
readers of Chaucer; the first edition, published in 1989, has been used regularly
in English classes throughout the country.
In addition to the nine tales and general prologue of the first edition, six
complete tales have been added, along with selections from Chaucer’s Tale
of Melibee and an expanded version of The Parson’s Prologue and
Tale.
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