Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, Vol. 3 of 4

Download or read book Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, Vol. 3 of 4 written by Robert Bell and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, Vol. 3 of 4: With Poems Formerly Printed With His or Attributed to Him [That this was one of Chaucer's early poems appears to be established by several circumstances; although neither the age at which it was written, nor the place to which it should be assigned in the chronology of his works, can be determined. There is no doubt that it was antecedent to The Canterbury Tales, which, at whatever period they may have been commenced, occupied the close of Chaucer's life. It certainly preceded The Legende of Gode Women, which is represented in the Prologue as having been designed to make amends for the unfavourable picture of the frailties of the sex drawn in the character of Cryseyde. Chaucer himself seems to indicate that it was one of the earliest of his productions, by mentioning it first in the list of those pieces which he tells us he had revoked in his 'retracciouns, ' alluded to in the address to the reader at the end of The Persones Tale, vol. ii. p. 350; and Lydgate, enumerating Chaucer's works, expressly refers Troylus and Cryseyde to his youth. If the conjectures suggested by the internal evidence were of any weight against this testimony, we might be justified in assuming that the poem could hardly have been the production of a very young writer. 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.