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Excerpt from The Development and Chronology of Chancer's Works
The next book to be mentioned is Dr. J ohn Koch's Chronology of Chaucer's Writings.5 His most important contribution to Chaucer chronology is the date 1381 - 2 for the Parliament of Fowls, which he had announced many years before.6 The Chronology, though a convenient re'sume' of earlier views, was less illuminating and j udicious than might have been desired.
In 1892, in his Studies in Chaucer,7 Professor Thomas R. Lounsbury waged vivacious war against prevalent misapprehensions, endeavoured to put the poet in his proper relation to literary history, and incidentally collected a large amount of known facts and added not a few new ones. The value of the work, great though it is, cannot always be called proportionate to its bulk, and at times it shows a tendency to represent Chaucer as a modern exiled among barbarous ancients. It rarely deals with chronology directly, but it is indispensable to any student of Chaucer's literary evolution.
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