Geoffrey Chaucer Book

Series Introduction     ix
Introduction   Harold Bloom     xi
Biography     xv
The Fourteenth Century     3
Thomas Usk (1387)     5
John Gower (1390)     5
The Fifteenth Century     7
John Lydgate (1400)     9
John Lydgate (1410)     10
John Walton "Translator's Preface" (1410)     10
Thomas Hoccleve (1412)     11
John Shirley "Introduction" (1450)     13
Robert Henryson (1475)     14
William Caxton "Epilogue" (1478)     15
William Caxton "Epilogue" (1483)     17
William Caxton "Prohemye" (1484)     17
The Sixteenth Century     21
William Dunbar (1503)     23
John Skelton "Phillip Sparrowe" (1508)     23
Gavin Douglas "Translator's Prologue" (1513)     27
Sir Thomas Wyatt (1540)     29
Henry VIII (1542-43)     29
Roger Ascham (1545)     30
Roger Ascham (1552)     31
Roger Ascham (1570)     31
John Foxe "A Protestation to the Whole Church of England" (1570)     31
George Gascoigne "Certain Notes of Instruction" (1575)     34
EdmundSpenser (1579)     35
Sir Philip Sidney (1581)     36
William Webbe "A Discourse of English Poetrie" (1586)     36
Thomas Nashe (1589)     38
Richard Puttenham (1589)     38
Robert Greene (1592)     39
Thomas Nashe (1592)     44
Edmund Spenser (1590-96)     45
Thomas Speght (1598)     46
Edmund Spenser "The Mutabilitie Cantos" (1599)     49
The Seventeenth Century     51
Edward Foulis "Prefatory Verse" (1635)     53
Samuel Pepys (1663-64)     53
Sir John Denham (1668)     54
Joseph Addison (1694)     54
The Eighteenth Century     57
John Dryden "Preface" (1700)     59
Alexander Pope (1711)     71
John Hughes (1715)     71
Daniel Defoe (1718)     72
Elizabeth Cooper (1737)     72
George Ogle "Letters to a Friend" (1739)     73
Samuel Johnson (1755)     74
Thomas Gray (1760)     76
Thomas Warton (1778-81)     80
Joseph Warton (1756-82)     106
The Nineteenth Century     109
William Godwin (1803-04)     111
William Blake (1809)      130
George Crabbe (1812)     140
William Hazlitt "Troilus and Cressida" (1817)     147
William Hazlitt "On Chaucer and Spenser" (1818)     150
William Wordsworth "Sonnet XXIII: Edward VI" (1822)     163
George Gordon, Lord Byron (1830)     163
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1837)     164
Elizabeth Barrett Browning "Mrs. Browning on Chaucer" (1842)     164
James Russell Lowell (1846)     171
Leigh Hunt (1848)     189
Henry David Thoreau "Friday" (1849)     189
Leigh Hunt (1855)     197
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1856)     209
Walter Savage Landor "To Chaucer" (1863)     210
Frederick Denison Maurice "On Books" (1865)     211
Francis James Child "Elision of Final Vowels" (1869)     212
James Russell Lowell "Chaucer" (1870)     213
William Minto "Geoffrey Chaucer" (1874)     239
Felix Lindner "The Alliteration in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales" (1876)     265
John Ruskin "Letter 61" (1876)     271
Adolphus William Ward "Characteristics of Chaucer and His Poetry" (1879)     272
Matthew Arnold (1880)     302
Gerard Manley Hopkins "Letter to Robert Bridges" (1880)     307
Algernon Charles Swinburne "Short Notes on English Poets" (1880)     308
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1881)     312
Algernon Charles Swinburne "Chaucer Lacks Sublimity" (1886)     312
George Dawson "Chaucer" (1887)     313
William Morris "Feudal England" (1888)     322
Henry Morley (1890)     323
Bernhard Ten Brink "Prelude to Reformation and Renaissance" (1893)     336
H. Simon "Chaucer a Wicliffite" (1868-94)     345
John Churton Collins (1895)     358
W.P. Ker "The Poetry of Chaucer" (1895)     359
Frank Jewett Mather "Introduction" (1899)     371
The Twentieth Century     381
George Saintsbury (1901)     383
Peter Borghesi (1903)     385
Sir Walter Raleigh "Lecture on Chaucer" (1926)     400
Chronology     407
Index     409