11) Proem to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Second Edition (1484). William Caxton.
1909-14. Famous Prefaces. The Harvard Classics
...all others, we ought to give a singular laud unto that noble and great philosopher Geoffrey Chaucer, the which for his ornate writing in our tongue may well have...
12) §7. Early Poems. VII. Chaucer. Vol. 2. The End of the Middle Ages. The
Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in
Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...of the earliest—and The Complaint unto Pity is not usually assigned to an earlier date—Chaucer was a singularly late-writing poet. But we may, of course, suppose...
13) §3. The Influence of Chaucer. X. The Scottish Chaucerians. Vol. 2. The End
of the Middle Ages. The Cambridge History of English and American
Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...matter of the dream-poem, is added that of its close acquaintance with the text of Chaucer. It is not merely that we find that the author knew the English poet s...
14) Chaucer, Geoffrey. The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition.
2002
...Chaucer, Geoffrey (CHAW-suhr) A fourteenth-century English poet, called the father of English poetry: he was the first great poet to write in the English language....
15) §16. His Humour. VII. Chaucer. Vol. 2. The End of the Middle Ages. The
Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in
Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...been observed above, and the point is important enough for emphasis, that we must not look in Chaucer for anything but the indiscriminateness and, from a strictly...
16) §5. Later Rearrangements. VII. Chaucer. Vol. 2. The End of the Middle Ages.
The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia
in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...partly by the discovery of authors to whom pieces must or may be assigned rather than to Chaucer, partly by the application of grammatical or other tests of the internal...
17) 11512. Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...I praye unto youre curteisye:Beeth hevy again, or elles moot I die. ATTRIBUTION:Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?-1400), British poet. The Complaint of Chaucer to His Empty...
18) 11514. Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...air;For as flaumbe is but lighted smoke,Right so soun is air ybroke. ATTRIBUTION:Geoffrey Chaucer (1340-1400), British poet. the eagle, in The House of Fame, bk....
19) 11507. Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...nat pisse, yet wole he heve up his leg and make a contenaunce to pisse. ATTRIBUTION:Geoffrey Chaucer (1340-1400), British poet. The Canterbury Tales, "The Parson's...
20) 11510. Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...so bisy a man as he ther nas,And yet he semed bisier than he was. ATTRIBUTION:Geoffrey Chaucer (1340-1400), British poet. The Canterbury Tales, "General Prologue,"...
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