"Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343 – 1400), known as the Father of English literature, is widely considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages and was the first poet to have been buried in Poet's Corner of Westminster Abbey . While he achieved fame during his lifetime as an author, philosopher, alchemist and astronomer, composing a scientific treatise on the astrolabe for his ten year-old son Lewis, Chaucer also maintained an active career in the civil service as a bureaucrat, courtier and diplomat. Among his many works, which include The Book of the Duchess, the House of Fame, the Legend of Good Women and Troilus and Criseyde, he is best loved today for The Canterbury Tales. Chaucer is a crucial figure in developing the legitimacy of the vernacular, Middle English, at a time when the dominant literary languages in England were French and Latin." --Wikipedia
Contents
NOTES ON CHAUCER'S USE OF 'E'
I CHAUCER'S LIFE AND TIMES
II CHAUCER'S WORKS
III CHAUCER'S TREATMENT OF HIS SOURCES
IV CHAUCER'S CHARACTER-DRAWING
V CHAUCER'S HUMOUR
VI CHAUCER'S DESCRIPTIVE POWER
VII SOME VIEWS OF CHAUCER'S ON MEN AND THINGS
VIII CHAUCER'S INFLUENCE
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
