CONTENTS
I. Early Comment and Criticism
EDMUND SPENSER,
from The Faerie Queene
JOHN MILTON,
from Il Penseroso
JOHN DRYDEN,
from Preface to the Fables
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE,
from Table Talk
MATTHEW ARNOLD,
from The Study of Poetry
II. The Prologue and Frame
ARTHUR W. HOFFMAN,
Chaucer's Prologue to Pilgrimage: The Two Voices
E. TALBOT DONALDSON,
Chaucer the Pilgrim
RALPH BALDWIN,
Chronology: Space-Time in the Prologue
KEMP MALONE,
The Host
GEORGE LYMAN KITTREDGE,
The Shipman and the Prioress
III. The Tales
DALE UNDERWOOD,
The First of The Canterbury Tales
E. M. W. TILLYARD,
Plot-Obliquity in Chaucer's Miller's Tale
RAYMOND PRESTON
Tales of the Man of Law and Clerk Epilogue
CHARLES MUSCATINE
The Mixed Style
The Nun's Priest's Tale
Chaucer and the Fifteenth Century
WAYNE SHUMAKER,
Alisoun in Wander-land: A Study in Chaucer's Mind and Literary Method
JOHN SPEIRS,
from The Canterbury Tales
CHARLES A. OWEN, JR.,
The Crucial Passages in Five of the Canterbury Tales: A Study in Irony and Symbol
IV. General
MILTON MILLER,
Definition by Comparison: Chaucer and Lawrence
BERTRAND BRONSON,
Chaucer's Audience
MORTON W. BLOOMFIELD,
Chaucer's Sense of History
JOHN LIVINGSTON LOWES,
The Human Comedy
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