Chaucer and English Tradition

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CUP Archive, 1972 M01 20 - 308 pages
 

Contents

Two stanzas of The Parliament of Fowls The Book of the Duchess and courtly literature 2 3 Chaucer lost in the House of Fame
3
The Parliament of Fowls
40
SOME OF CHAUCERS STORIES
71
Chaucers great failure Troilus and Criseyde
73
1 The General Prologue
86
2 the Miller and the Wife of Bath page vii
92
The Squires Tale and The Franklins Tale 181
108
The tragic Canterbury tale
133
1 Piers Plowman
201
2 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
219
Scotland
234
Italy
248
Chaucer and criticism
266
Chaucer the father
282
219 234
293
248
294

The religious tales
147
Malignity and The Merchants Tale
172
PERSPECTIVES
199

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