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  2. The Complaint of Mars - Wikipedia

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    The Complaint of Mars, [1] is one of Geoffrey Chaucer's short poems that has elicited a variety of critical commentary. While this poem has been seen as allegorical, astronomical, and interpretive-appreciative in nature, a number of critics have examined the poem only as a description of an astronomical event. [2]

  3. Geoffrey Chaucer - Wikipedia

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    Chaucer's short poem Fortune, believed to have been written in the 1390s, is also thought to refer to Lancaster. [ 46 ] [ 47 ] "Chaucer as narrator" openly defies Fortune , proclaiming that he has learned who his enemies are through her tyranny and deceit, and declares "my suffisaunce" (15) and that "over himself hath the maystrye" (14).

  4. Anelida and Arcite - Wikipedia

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    Anelida and Arcite is a 357-line English poem by Geoffrey Chaucer. It tells the story of Anelida, queen of Armenia and her wooing by false Arcite from Thebes, Greece. [1] Although relatively short, it is a poem with a complex structure, with an invocation and then the main story.

  5. Parlement of Foules - Wikipedia

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    The Parliament of Birds, an 18th-century oil painting by Karl Wilhelm de Hamilton. The Parlement of Foules (modernized: Parliament of Fowls), also called the Parlement of Briddes (Parliament of Birds) or the Assemble of Foules (Assembly of Fowls), is a poem by Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340s–1400) made up of approximately 700 lines.

  6. The Book of the Duchess - Wikipedia

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    The Book of the Duchess, also known as The Deth of Blaunche, [1] is the earliest of Chaucer's major poems, preceded only by his short poem, "An ABC", and possibly by his translation of The Romaunt of the Rose. Based on the themes and title of the poem, most sources put the date of composition after 12 September 1368 (when Blanche of Lancaster ...

  7. Troilus and Criseyde - Wikipedia

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    Geoffrey Chaucer reciting before nobles. Troilus and Criseyde (/ ˈ t r ɔɪ l ə s ... k r ɪ ˈ s eɪ d ə /) is an epic poem by Geoffrey Chaucer which re-tells in Middle English the tragic story of the lovers Troilus and Criseyde set against a backdrop of war during the siege of Troy. It was written in rime royale and probably completed ...

  8. The Legend of Good Women - Wikipedia

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    The Legend of Good Women is a poem in the form of a dream vision by Geoffrey Chaucer during the fourteenth century.. The poem is the third longest of Chaucer's works, after The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde, and is possibly the first significant work in English to use the iambic pentameter or decasyllabic couplets which he later used throughout The Canterbury Tales.

  9. The House of Fame - Wikipedia

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    The House of Fame (Hous of Fame in the original spelling) is a Middle English poem by Geoffrey Chaucer, probably written between 1374 and 1385, making it one of his earlier works. [1] It was most likely written after The Book of the Duchess, but its chronological relation to Chaucer's other early poems is uncertain. [2]

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