Explore Chaucer’s lesser-known poems with guided introductions, notes, and a practical glossary.
This edition presents selections from Chaucer’s minor works, with scholarly apparatus designed for college study. It combines careful editing with accessible explanations to help readers understand language, versification, and context without getting lost in archaic spelling.
Ideal for students, instructors, and general readers keen to explore Chaucer beyond the better-known Canterbury Tales, this edition offers reliable text, marginal notes, and a glossary to illuminate difficult terms and historical usage.
- Clear editorial choices that illuminate Chaucer’s language and verse forms.
- Introductions that frame each piece and explain key points of interpretation.
- Notes and a glossary to aid understanding of Middle English terms and references.
- A compact, affordable edition suitable for classroom use or personal study.
Ideal for readers of Chaucer who want a focused, well‑annotated entry into his minor poetry.
Often referred to as the father of English poetry, Geoffrey Chaucer was a fourteenth-century philosopher, alchemist, astrologer, bureaucrat, diplomat, and author of many significant poems. Chaucer s writing was influential in English literary tradition, as it introduced new rhyming schemes and helped develop the vernacular traditionthe use of everyday Englishrather than the literary French and Latin, which were common in written works of the time. Chaucer s best-knownand most imitatedworks include The Canterbury Tales, Troilus and Criseyde, The Book of the Duchess, and The House of Fame.