Abstract
CHAUCER’S works fall into two main categories: the translations—the Romaunt of the Rose, Boethius’ Consolation of Philosophy, and A Treatise on the Astrolabe, which is in the main a translation; and the poems, which are here subdivided into short poems, minor poems, Troilus and Criseyde, and the Canterbury Tales. The short poems, our concern in this chapter, include the Book of the Duchess, the House of Fame, Anelida and Arcite, the Parliament of Fowls, and the Legend of Good Women. Classifying these poems as “short” is an innovation, for this term is generally applied to those poems which in this book are grouped under the heading of “The Minor Poems.” Some of the works classified as “short” are in fact fairly extensive; but, in contrast to Troilus and Criseyde and to the Canterbury Tales, they are short. It is with this comparison in mind that they are classified as they are.
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