Book Cover -- Title -- Contents -- 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.