This is a copious and judicious selection from Chaucer’s Tales, with full notes on the history, manners, customs, and language of the fourteenth century, with marginal glossary and a literal poetical version in modern English in parallel columns with the original poetry. Six of the Canterbury Tales are thus presented, in sections of from 10 to 200 lines, mingled with prose narrative.
Inside the book is a section called "A Key to the Cover," which is a reference to the original cover of the book.
Table of Contents:
FOREWORD
CHAUCER THE TALE-TELLER
CANTERBURY TALES
Chaucer's Pilgrims
Chaucer's Prologue
The Knight's Tale
The Friar's Tale
The Clerk's Tale
The Franklin's Tale
The Pardoner's Tale
MINOR POEMS
Complaint of Chaucer to his Purse
Two Rondeaux
Virelai
Good Counsel of Chaucer
NOTES ON THE PICTURES
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