This is the story of a womans lifeher childhood, her education, her marriage and family. But mostly, this is the story of a woman who found her hero in her middle age, when she went back to college to complete her education. The hero was Geoffrey Chaucer. Dolores became entranced with the poet the storyteller. She fell in love with his words, his language, his Middle English. And she found in Chaucers works, primarily in The Canterbury Tales, meanings hidden and brillliant. However, when she took her discoveries to the ...
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This is the story of a womans lifeher childhood, her education, her marriage and family. But mostly, this is the story of a woman who found her hero in her middle age, when she went back to college to complete her education. The hero was Geoffrey Chaucer. Dolores became entranced with the poet the storyteller. She fell in love with his words, his language, his Middle English. And she found in Chaucers works, primarily in The Canterbury Tales, meanings hidden and brillliant. However, when she took her discoveries to the established academic scholars, she was dismissed as an amateur and her ideas were scorned because they were original and did not fit the established model. She stuck to her guns, found support and encouragement from a few open-minded scholars, and went on to publish a trilogy of ground-breaking literary criticism about Chaucers greatest work. This is a memoir of devotion, joy, and persistence.
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