Geoffrey Chaucer. Volume 1: 1385-1837

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
INTRODUCTION......Page 14
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE......Page 43
THE PRINCIPAL EDITIONS OF CHAUCER\'s \'WORKS\' UP TO 1933......Page 46
EUSTACHE DESCHAMPS, Great Ovid, c. 1385......Page 52
THOMAS USK, Love praises the philosophical poet, c. 1387......Page 55
JOHN GOWER, Venus sends greetings, c. 1390......Page 56
JOHN LYDGATE, The Gothic poet, c. 1400  39......Page 57
HENRY SCOGAN Moral Chaucer, c. 1407......Page 72
JOHN WALTON, Olde poysees clerk, 1410......Page 74
THOMAS HOCCLEVE, The disciple\'s commemoration, 1412......Page 75
JOHN METHAM, Chaucer\'s ease, 1448  9......Page 77
GEORGE ASHBY, Embelysshing oure englisshe, c. 1470......Page 80
ROBERT HENRYSON, Who knows if all that worthy Chaucer wrote was true?, c. 1475......Page 82
Inventory of Sir John Paston II, 1475  9......Page 83
UNKNOWN, Word and thing, c. 1477......Page 84
WILLIAM CAXTON, High and quick sentence, 1478, 1483, 1484......Page 87
STEPHEN SURIGO, Chaucer\'s Epitaph, 1479......Page 90
JOHN PARMENTER\'S Will, 1479......Page 93
WILLIAM DUNBAR, Golden eloquence, c. 1503......Page 94
JOHN SKELTON, Some sad storyes, some mery, c. 1507......Page 96
GAVIN DOUGLAS, Venerabill Chauser, all womanis frend, 1513......Page 99
WILLIAM TYNDALE, To corrupt the minds of youth, 1528......Page 100
SIR THOMAS ELYOT, A discord, 1533......Page 103
UNKNOWN, Chaucer wrote much to do us good, c. 1540......Page 109
SIR THOMAS WYATT, Noble scorn, c. 1540......Page 110
An Acte, 1542  3......Page 111
ROGER ASCHAM, Chaucer our English Homer, 1545, 1552, 1563......Page 112
PETER ASHTON, Chaucer\'s words out of use, 1546......Page 114
EDMUND BECKE, The Bible versus Canterbury Tales, 1549......Page 115
ROBERT BRAHAM, Divine Chaucer lived in a barbarous age, 1555......Page 116
WALTER STEVINS, Wittie Chaucer, c. 1555......Page 117
BARNABY GOOGE, Olde Ennius, 1565......Page 119
JOHN FOXE, Industrious and fruitfully occupied in liberal studies, 1570......Page 120
GEORGE GASCOIGNE, Riding Rhyme, 1575......Page 122
UNKNOWN, Classic and heavenly, c. 1575......Page 123
MEREDITH HANMER, Good decorum observed, 1576......Page 125
GEORGE WHETSTONE, Sir Chaucer\'s jests, 1578......Page 127
EDWARD KIRKE, Loadestarre of our Language, 1579......Page 130
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY, Chaucer had great wants, 1581......Page 131
JOHN HIGINS, Quaint, 1585......Page 133
WILLIAM WEBBE, Profitable counsel mingled with delight, 1586......Page 137
RICHARD (?) PUTTENHAM, The naturall of his pleasant wit, 1589......Page 139
THOMAS NASHE, Chaucer liued vnder the tirranie of ignorance, 1589, 1952......Page 140
SIR JOHN HARINGTON, Flat scrurrilitie, 1591......Page 142
ROBERT GREENE (?), Poets wits are free, 1592......Page 143
FRANCIS BEAUMONT, Ancient learned men in Cambridge, 1597......Page 148
GEORGE CHAPMAN, Newe wordes, 1598......Page 153
RICHARD VERSTEGAN, Mingler of English with French, 1605......Page 157
RICHARD BRATHWAIT, An excellent Epanodos, 1616......Page 158
HENRY PEACHAM, A delicate kernell of conceit and sweet invention, 1622......Page 161
JONATHAN SIDNAM (?), Obsolete, c. 1630......Page 162
BRIAN WALKER, Believed the Bible to be as true as Chaucer, 1633......Page 164
EDWARD FOULIS, Time can silence Chaucer\'s tongue, 1635......Page 165
SAMUEL PEPYS, A very fine poet, 1663, 1664......Page 166
THOMAS SPRAT, A close, naked, natural way, 1665......Page 168
SIR JOHN DENHAM, Morning Star, 1668......Page 170
THOMAS RYMER, Will not speak of Chaucer, 1674......Page 171
JOSEPH ADDISON, In vain he Jests, 1694......Page 172
JOHN DRYDEN, God\'s plenty, 1700......Page 173
ALEXANDER POPE, The pleasure of Chaucer, 1711, 1728  30......Page 185
JOHN HUGHES, Native Strength, 1715......Page 186
DANIEL DEFOE, Not fit for modest Persons to read, 1718......Page 187
AMBROSE PHILLIPS (?), Bright images, 1720......Page 188
JOHN DART and WILLIAM THOMAS, Thus Chaucer painted Life, 1721, 1722......Page 189
LEONARD WELSTED, Obsolete and unintelligible, 1724......Page 199
JOHN ENTICK;THOMAS MORELL, No hyperbole, 1736......Page 200
THOMAS MORELL, Noble fiction, 1737......Page 206
ELIZABETH COOPER, Soaring in high Life, pleasant in low, 1737......Page 211
GEORGE OGLE, Dramatic Characterisation, 1739......Page 216
ASTROPHIL, Meer fictions for realities we take, 1740......Page 218
THOMAS SEWARD, Gross expressions, 1750......Page 220
SAMUEL JOHNSON, His diction was in general like that of his contemporaries, 1755, 1765......Page 221
JOSEPH WARTON, Very sudden transitions from the sublime to the ridiculous, 1756, 1782......Page 225
THOMAS GRAY, Circumstances alter, c. 1760......Page 228
RICHARD HURD, Gothic and Neoclassical, 1762......Page 233