Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Best American Tales: Chosen, With an Introduction
Parlement of Foules and the House of Fame. In his rendering of Boccaccio's story in verse, the Troilus and Criseyde, Chaucer made an advance upon his original by imparting to his own work a wealth of characterization and of descriptive and narrative power. He then began stringing together a series of sketches or characterizations to form the Legend of Good Women but the artificiality of the subject matter becoming apparent, he exchanged these for the splendid inspiration of the Tales connected by means of the Canterbury pilgrimage.
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