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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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• Book of the Duchess (Masterplots Classics)
• Book of the Duchess (Character Profiles)
• Book of the Duchess (Literary Places)
• Canterbury Tales, The (Masterplots Classics)
• Canterbury Tales, The (Magill Book Reviews)
• Canterbury Tales, The (Character Profiles)
• Canterbury Tales, The (Literary Places)
• Clerk’s Tale, The (Poetry)
• Franklin’s Tale, The (Poetry)
• General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales (Poetry)
• Knight’s Tale, The (Poetry)
• Legend of Good Women, The (Masterplots Classics)
• Legend of Good Women, The (Character Profiles)
• Merchant’s Tale, The (Poetry)
• Miller’s Tale, The (Poetry)
• Nun’s Priest’s Tale, The (Poetry)
• Parlement of Foules (Masterplots Classics)
• Parlement of Foules (Character Profiles)
• Troilus and Criseyde (Masterplots Classics)
• Troilus and Criseyde (Character Profiles)
• Troilus and Criseyde (Literary Places)
• Wife of Bath’s Tale, The (Poetry)
• English and Continental Poetry in the Fourteenth Century (Topical Overview--Poetry)
• English Poetry in the Fifteenth Century (Topical Overview--Poetry)
• Explicating Poetry (Topical Overview--Poetry)
• Fable Tradition, The (Topical Overview--Short Fiction)
• Renaissance Novelle, The (Topical Overview--Short Fiction)
• Theory of Short Fiction (Topical Overview--Short Fiction)