East Midland “King’s English”

John Gower
Speculum Meditantis
Miroir de l’ Homme

Vox Clamantis

Confessio Amantis (1383)

Geoffrey Chaucer(1340-1400)
His Life
Sources of Inspiration
Poetic Beauty-
Chaucerian Stanza
Light
Pitch
Restraint
Garrulousness
 Chaucer’s Works
The French Period (1360-1372)
The Romance of the Rose
The Book of Duchess (1369)
Death of Blanche
The Complaint Unto Pity (1369)
The A.B.C.
The Italian Period (1372-1384)
Troilus and Creseyde (1380-1383)
Filostrato..Boccaccio
The Story of Griselda Dante
The Clerk’s Tale Petrarch
The Man of Law’s Tale Boccaccio
Parliament of Fowls
Richard II and Anne of Bohemia
The House of Fame
The Legend of Good Women
The English Period (1384-1392)
The Canterbury Tales (1385-1390
A Ploughman
The Knight
A Miller
The Squire
A Reeve
The Yeoman
A Franklin
The The Doctor of Physic
Maunciple Man of Law
The Cook Clerk of Oxford
The Host of The Poet
Tabard
Wife of Bath
Haberdasher Parson
The Carpenter Summoner
The Weaver Canon
Dyer Monk
The Tapicer Prioress
Nun
A Merchant Friar
A Shipman Pardoner