The Minor Poems of Geoffrey Chaucer (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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INTRODUCTION.
Now that the fifth century since the death of Chaucer is almost completed, it seems high time thai a serious attempt should he made to present to readers an edition of his Minor Poems in something like a reasonable spelling and with a sufficient quantity of illustration in the form of notes. Mr. Sweet has given us a few extracts from these, in his Second Middle-English Primer, hut confesses that he has 4 not attempted to forestall the inevitable German, who, it is to be hoped, will someday give us a critical edition of Chaucer,' Though I am perhaps to some extent disqualified, as being merely a native of London, in which city Chaucer himself was born, I hope I may be pardoned the temerity of attempting something in this direction. At the same time, it is only right to say that wc owe something to Dr. John Koch, who produced ' A Critical Edition of some of Chaucer's Minor Poems/ published at Berlin in 1883. The only fault of this edition is that it contains so very lit

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CONTENTS; Introduction' vii; Testimony of Chaucer regarding his works viii; Lydgate's list of Chaucer's Poems x; Testimony of John Sihrley xiii; Testimony ok Scrides op the MSS xiv; Testimony of Caxtox sv; Early Editions of Chaucer's Works xv; Tadlf ok Contents op Stowe's Edition (1561) xix; Discussion ok the Poems in Part I of the Edition of; j 561xsii; Discussion of the Poems in Part II ok the Edition of; 1561 XX*; Poems added in Speght's Editions xxsii; Pieces added in Morris's Edition, 1866 ' xxxv; Description of the Manuscripts xxxvii; Iirt of the Manuscripts xxxvii; Kemarks on some of the Manuscripts-Manuscripts at Oxford xl; Manuscripts at Cambridge xlii; Manuscripts in London *lv; Kemarks on Poem>s i-xxiii xlvii; 1 An A B C 1; 71 The Compleynte unto Pitf 8; 111 The Book of the Duchesse 13; iv The

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