Chaucer Memorial Lectures, 1900

allegory Boccaccio Bodleian Bothwell Castle British Museum Canterbury Canterbury Tales character Church clerk colour contemporary criticism Dante death Decamerone described doubt Duke Earl edition Ellesmere England English literature engraved evidence Fairfax Murray father Filostrato French genius Geoffrey Chaucer Gower Henry Henry VI House of Fame humour Inferno interest John Gower John of Gaunt John Paston King Knight's Tale labour Lady Langland language Latin lines literary living Lord Lounsbury Lydgate Margaret Paston marriage master mentioned monk nature never Nicolas Occleve portrait Occleve's original painted Paston family Paston Letters person Petrarca picture Piers Plowman poem poet poet's poetic poetry portrait of Chaucer possession Professor Skeat prologue reader reference reign remarkable resemblance Richard says Seddon Sir John stanzas story supposed taken Teseide thee thou thought tion tongue translation Troilus and Cressida verse Ward wife women words writing written wrote