Geoffrey Chaucer (Critical Survey of Poetry)

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In addition to the early allegorical dream visions, the “tragedy” of Troilus and Criseyde, and the “comedy” The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer composed various lyrical poems, wrote a scientific treatise in prose, and translated two immensely influential works from Latin and Old French into Middle English. The shorter works have received little attention from critics. “An ABC,” Chaucer’s earliest poem adapted from the French of Guillaume Deguilleville, and the various ballades, roundels, and envoys are in the French courtly...

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