Romaunt of the Rose, in part preserved, and the ABC, early poems; Book of the Duchess, Life of Saint Cecyle, 1369; Palamon and Arcite, Complaint to Pity, Anelida and Arcite, 1372–3; Translation of Boethius, 1377–8; Complaint of Mars, 1379 (?); Troylus and Cryseyde, 1379–83; Parlement of Foules, 1382; House of Fame, 1383–4; Legend of Good Women, 1385–6; Canterbury Tales, begun 1386; Treatise on the Astrolabe, 1391. Two early works are lost, and one partly preserved in the Man of Law’s Tale.

Many minor poems are included in Chaucer’s works.

Works: Thynne, 1532; Tyrwhitt, 1775, etc.; Skeat, 6 vols., 1894, and “Student’s Chaucer,” 1895; Pollard, Heath, Liddell, McCormick, 1901.

The Chaucer Society has published parallel texts of Chaucer’s works, and autotype editions of some of the chief MSS., also “Chronology of Chaucer’s Works,” by Koch, 1890.

Life: J.Saunders, 1845; T.Markly, “Life and Poetry of Chaucer,” Lecture, 1858; Ward (English Men of Letters), 1879; Lennsbury, “Studies in Chaucer,” etc., 1892; “Life-Records of Chaucer,” Chaucer Society, 1900; Ames, “Chaucer Memorial Lectures,” 1900; Tuckwell (Miniature Series of Great Writers), 1904. See also the “Dictionary of National Biography” and editions of works.


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