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Abstract Few Middle English scholars are now content to view Chaucer’s dominance over his fifteenth-century successors as effected in some magical way by the sheer force of his genius. Nevertheless, we still lack the conceptual tools to produce a convincing alternative. —Larry Scanlon Of my prest called Genivs . . . . . . thou shalt fynde hyt thus: Th at his power is Auctorised And throgh the world eke solemnysed. John Lydgate, Reson and Sensuallyte (863-66)

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