The Poetical Works Of Geoffrey Chaucer Vol 1 Classic Reprint PDF Download

Excerpt from Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, Vol. 1: Edited With a Memoir This edition of Chaucer's works includes all the poems which appear entitled, from internal or external evidence, to be considered genuine. Wherever a necessity has arisen, the value or authenticity of the evidence has been investigated in the preliminary notices. The obscurity in which the literary history of the fourteenth century is buried, renders it impossible to determine the dates of the poems; and any attempt at chronological arrangement would, consequently, be imperfect and illusory. Tradition, in some instances, supplies a ground of conjecture; and in others, particular circumstances indicate generally the period of authorship. But the information obtained from such sources is vague and incomplete. Thus it may be assumed, for several reasons, that The Court of Love, of which no MS. is known to exist, and which was first printed by Stowe, with many apocryphal pieces, in 1561, was one of Chaucer's earliest productions. The Troilus and Creseide may be assigned to his youth for similar reasons. It is tolerably certain, also, that the Assemblee of Foules, or, as it is called in one of the MSS., The Parlement of Briddes, had a direct reference to the marriage of the Duchess Blanche of Lancaster; and that The Dreme of Chaucer, more properly entitled The Booke of the Duchesse, referred to her death. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.