The Complete Poetical Works
Loke who that is most vertuous alway, / Privee and apert, and most entendeth ay / To do the gentil dedes that he can, / And tak him for the grettest gentil man.
Geoffrey
Chaucer
Chaucer
The Complete Poetical Works
Geoffrey Chaucer
Skeat’s expert editorship of the epitome of the Age of Chivalry reinvigorates the birth of the English language.
Contents
EDITED BY W. W. SKEAT
OXFORD AT THE CLARENDON PRESS, 1894
NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 2010
The Canterbury Tales
Group A.
Group B.
Group C.
Group D.
Group E.
Group F.
Group G.
Group H.
Group I.
The Romaunt of the Rose
The Minor Poems
I.
An A. B. C.
VII.
Anelida and Arcite
IX.
The Former Age
X.
Fortune
XI.
Merciles Beautè
XII.
Balade to Rosemounde
XIII.
Truth
XIV.
Gentilesse
XVI.
Lenvoy to Scogan
XVII.
Lenvoy to Bukton
XVIII.
The Compleynt of Venus
XXII.
An Amorous Compleint
XXIII.
A Balade of Compleynt
Troilus and Criseyde
The Hous of Fame
The Legend of Good Women
I.
Cleopatra
V.
Lucretia
VI.
Ariadne
VII.
Philomela
VIII.
Phyllis
IX.
Hypermnestra