• Chaucer and the Poems of "Ch"

"CH": NOTES Abbreviations: A: Neuchâtel; B: Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS lat. 3343; C: Barcelona text; CT: Chaucer, Canterbury Tales; LGW: Chaucer, The Legend of Good Women; P: University of Pennsylvania MS French 15. [Ch I; MS #235] Chançon

• Chaucer and the Poems of "Ch"

"CH": NOTES Abbreviations: A: Neuchâtel; B: Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS lat. 3343; C: Barcelona text; CT: Chaucer, Canterbury Tales; LGW: Chaucer, The Legend of Good Women; P: University of Pennsylvania MS French 15. [Ch I; MS #235] Chançon

• Chaucer and the Poems of "Ch"

"CH": NOTES Abbreviations: A: Neuchâtel; B: Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS lat. 3343; C: Barcelona text; CT: Chaucer, Canterbury Tales; LGW: Chaucer, The Legend of Good Women; P: University of Pennsylvania MS French 15. [Ch I; MS #235] Chançon

• Chaucer and the Poems of "Ch"

"CH": NOTES Abbreviations: A: Neuchâtel; B: Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS lat. 3343; C: Barcelona text; CT: Chaucer, Canterbury Tales; LGW: Chaucer, The Legend of Good Women; P: University of Pennsylvania MS French 15. [Ch I; MS #235] Chançon

• Wimsatt, Chaucer and MS French 15 (Penn)

to the renditions Chaucer must have worked with (Scattergood, “Chaucer’s Complaint of Venus," p. 174). 15 Braddy sees the influence going the other way (Chaucer and the French Poet Granson, pp. 57–61 and 64–66); but see Wimsatt, Chaucer and the

• The Floure and the Leafe: Introduction

of his sixteenth century predecessors by enlarging his edition of Chaucer with the addition of works that could plausibly be attributed to the poet, and FL remained in the Chaucer canon, as one of the most admired of his poems,

• Lydgate, The Siege of Thebes: Introduction

and silent correction. Lydgate's praise of Chaucer in the Prologue to The Siege of Thebes (lines 39-57), marked by the marginal gloss "Chaucer," follows the commonplaces he had established earlier in Troy Book: Chaucer is the flower of British poets,

• Wimsatt, Chaucer and the Poems of "Ch": Introduction

and personal business in France and Savoy. As with Chaucer and Froissart, Chaucer and Granson made use of each other's work. In a poem now known as the "Complaint of Venus," Chaucer translated into English a series of Granson's balades,

• John Gower, The Minor Latin Works: Dicunt scripture

CT: Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales; CVP: Gower, Carmen super multiplici viciorum pestilencia; IPP: Gower, In Praise of Peace; Mac: Macaulay edition; MO: Gower, Mirour de l'Omme; TC: Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde; Thynne: William Thynne, printer, The Works of Geffray Chaucer

• Presul ouile regis

CT: Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales; CVP: Gower, Carmen super multiplici viciorum pestilencia; IPP: Gower, In Praise of Peace; Mac: Macaulay edition; MO: Gower, Mirour de l'Omme; TC: Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde; Thynne: William Thynne, printer, The Works of Geffray Chaucer

• John Gower, The Minor Latin Works: Unanimes esse qui secula

CT: Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales; CVP: Gower, Carmen super multiplici viciorum pestilencia; IPP: Gower, In Praise of Peace; Mac: Macaulay edition; MO: Gower, Mirour de l'Omme; TC: Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde; Thynne: William Thynne, printer, The Works of Geffray Chaucer

• John Gower, The Minor Latin Works: Cultor in ecclesia

CT: Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales; CVP: Gower, Carmen super multiplici viciorum pestilencia; IPP: Gower, In Praise of Peace; Mac: Macaulay edition; MO: Gower, Mirour de l'Omme; TC: Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde; Thynne: William Thynne, printer, The Works of Geffray Chaucer

• Plowman Writings: Introduction

Rickert (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1940), 3:24-25; The Riverside Chaucer, ed. Larry D. Benson, 3rd ed. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1987), p. 32; and The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, ed. F. N. Robin-son, 2nd ed. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1957),

• Henryson, Complete Works: Appendix

Dumfermling2 much about the time that Chaucer was first printed and dedicated to King Henry the Eighth by Mr Thinne3 which was neere the end of his raigne. This Mr Henderson, wittily observing that Chaucer in his fifth booke had

• Lydgate, Troy Book: Introduction

of Chaucer as both inspiration and rival. Troy Book contains laudatory passages that not only offer praise for Chaucer but also shape literary history by establishing him as the father of English poetry. Robert O. Payne observes that Chaucer offered

• Thomas Hoccleve, The Regiment of Princes: Introduction

cannot be said for Chaucer; and given the prominence of Chaucer in the structuring of the Prologue, it is necessary to take a brief look at the influence of Hoccleve's "master." The relation of Hoccleve to Chaucer embraces four issues

• Complaint of a Prisoner against Fortune: Introduction

Fates, Antropos, Cloto, and Lachesis (lines 47-58). He knew the ideas of the Boethian tradition, and he had probably read Chaucer. This all points to a literate and fairly well educated person. He was devout, concluding his arguments with a

• Lydgate, The Temple of Glas: Introduction

for striving to imitate Chaucer, Lydgate has until recently been compared unfavor­ably with the older poet.16 “The inevitable result,” as Sue Bianco has said, “is that Lydgate, not being Chaucer, is found wanting.”17 In fact, Chaucer is only one point

• Ecce patet tensus

CT: Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales; CVP: Gower, Carmen super multiplici viciorum pestilencia; IPP: Gower, In Praise of Peace; Mac: Macaulay edition; MO: Gower, Mirour de l'Omme; TC: Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde; Thynne: William Thynne, printer, The Works of Geffray Chaucer

• John Gower, The Minor Latin Works: Eneidos bucolis

CT: Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales; CVP: Gower, Carmen super multiplici viciorum pestilencia; IPP: Gower, In Praise of Peace; Mac: Macaulay edition; MO: Gower, Mirour de l'Omme; TC: Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde; Thynne: William Thynne, printer, The Works of Geffray Chaucer