This volume gathers Geoffrey Chaucer's 'Romaunt of the Rose' with a selection of his minor poems, as edited by Walter W. Skeat. The Romaunt is a Middle English dream-vision allegory adapted from the French 'Roman de la Rose,' while the shorter pieces show Chaucer's lyric and occasional verse. It offers a rich introduction to medieval English poetry and courtly love.
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Frontispiece
Vol. I. Frontispiece.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER: FROM MS. HARL. 4866
THE COMPLETE WORKS
OF
GEOFFREY CHAUCER
EDITED, FROM NUMEROUS MANUSCRIPTS
BY THE
Rŧ΄. WALTER W. SKEAT, M.A.
LƗǵǵ.D., LL.D., D.C.L., Pƒ.D.
ELRINGTON AND BOSWORTH PROFESSOR OF ANGLO-SAXON
AND FELLOW OF CHRIST'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE
*
ROMAUNT OF THE ROSE
MINOR POEMS
——'blanda sonantibus
Chordis carmina temperans.'
BLjŧǵƒƗǼǪ, De Cons. Phil. Lib. III. Met.
12.
'He temprede hise blaundisshinge songes by resowninge strenges.'
Chaucer's Translation.
SECOND EDITION
Oxford
AT THE CLARENDON PRESS
MDCCCXCIX
Oxford
PRINTED AT THE CLARENDON PRESS
BY HORACE HART, M.A.,
PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY
CONTENTS.
*** The Portrait of Chaucer in the frontispiece is noticed at p. lix.
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