Geoffrey Chaucer : the Critical Heritage Volume 1 1385-1837

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INTRODUCTION

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

THE PRINCIPAL EDITIONS OF CHAUCER's 'WORKS' UP TO 1933

EUSTACHE DESCHAMPS, Great Ovid, c. 1385

THOMAS USK, Love praises the philosophical poet, c. 1387

JOHN GOWER, Venus sends greetings, c. 1390

JOHN LYDGATE, The Gothic poet, c. 1400 39

HENRY SCOGAN Moral Chaucer, c. 1407

JOHN WALTON, Olde poysees clerk, 1410

THOMAS HOCCLEVE, The disciple's commemoration, 1412

JOHN METHAM, Chaucer's ease, 1448 9

GEORGE ASHBY, Embelysshing oure englisshe, c. 1470

ROBERT HENRYSON, Who knows if all that worthy Chaucer wrote was true?, c. 1475

Inventory of Sir John Paston II, 1475 9

UNKNOWN, Word and thing, c. 1477

WILLIAM CAXTON, High and quick sentence, 1478, 1483, 1484

STEPHEN SURIGO, Chaucer's Epitaph, 1479

JOHN PARMENTER'S Will, 1479

WILLIAM DUNBAR, Golden eloquence, c. 1503

JOHN SKELTON, Some sad storyes, some mery, c. 1507

GAVIN DOUGLAS, Venerabill Chauser, all womanis frend, 1513

WILLIAM TYNDALE, To corrupt the minds of youth, 1528

SIR THOMAS ELYOT, A discord, 1533

UNKNOWN, Chaucer wrote much to do us good, c. 1540

SIR THOMAS WYATT, Noble scorn, c. 1540

An Acte, 1542 3

ROGER ASCHAM, Chaucer our English Homer, 1545, 1552, 1563

PETER ASHTON, Chaucer's words out of use, 1546

EDMUND BECKE, The Bible versus Canterbury Tales, 1549

ROBERT BRAHAM, Divine Chaucer lived in a barbarous age, 1555

WALTER STEVINS, Wittie Chaucer, c. 1555

BARNABY GOOGE, Olde Ennius, 1565

JOHN FOXE, Industrious and fruitfully occupied in liberal studies, 1570

GEORGE GASCOIGNE, Riding Rhyme, 1575

UNKNOWN, Classic and heavenly, c. 1575

MEREDITH HANMER, Good decorum observed, 1576

GEORGE WHETSTONE, Sir Chaucer's jests, 1578

EDWARD KIRKE, Loadestarre of our Language, 1579. SIR PHILIP SIDNEY, Chaucer had great wants, 1581

JOHN HIGINS, Quaint, 1585

WILLIAM WEBBE, Profitable counsel mingled with delight, 1586

RICHARD PUTTENHAM, The naturall of his pleasant wit, 1589

THOMAS NASHE, Chaucer liued vnder the tirranie of ignorance, 1589, 1952

SIR JOHN HARINGTON, Flat scrurrilitie, 1591

ROBERT GREENE , Poets wits are free, 1592

FRANCIS BEAUMONT, Ancient learned men in Cambridge, 1597

GEORGE CHAPMAN, Newe wordes, 1598

RICHARD VERSTEGAN, Mingler of English with French, 1605

RICHARD BRATHWAIT, An excellent Epanodos, 1616

HENRY PEACHAM, A delicate kernell of conceit and sweet invention, 1622

JONATHAN SIDNAM , Obsolete, c. 1630

BRIAN WALKER, Believed the Bible to be as true as Chaucer, 1633

EDWARD FOULIS, Time can silence Chaucer's tongue, 1635

SAMUEL PEPYS, A very fine poet, 1663, 1664

THOMAS SPRAT, A close, naked, natural way, 1665

SIR JOHN DENHAM, Morning Star, 1668

THOMAS RYMER, Will not speak of Chaucer, 1674

JOSEPH ADDISON, In vain he Jests, 1694

JOHN DRYDEN, God's plenty, 1700

ALEXANDER POPE, The pleasure of Chaucer, 1711, 1728 30

JOHN HUGHES, Native Strength, 1715

DANIEL DEFOE, Not fit for modest Persons to read, 1718

AMBROSE PHILLIPS , Bright images, 1720

JOHN DART and WILLIAM THOMAS, Thus Chaucer painted Life, 1721, 1722

LEONARD WELSTED, Obsolete and unintelligible, 1724

JOHN ENTICK

THOMAS MORELL, No hyperbole, 1736

THOMAS MORELL, Noble fiction, 1737

ELIZABETH COOPER, Soaring in high Life, pleasant in low, 1737

GEORGE OGLE, Dramatic Characterisation, 1739

ASTROPHIL, Meer fictions for realities we take, 1740

THOMAS SEWARD, Gross expressions, 1750

SAMUEL JOHNSON, His diction was in general like that of his contemporaries, 1755, 1765. JOSEPH WARTON, Very sudden transitions from the sublime to the ridiculous, 1756, 1782

THOMAS GRAY, Circumstances alter, c. 1760

RICHARD HURD, Gothic and Neoclassical, 1762