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2. House of Fame

    

   It is a poem designed as a dream. This is an unfinished work consisting of 2958 lines. The poet visits the Temple of Venus in a dream where he sees the entire story of Aeneas painted on the walls. It is adapted from Dante’s Divine Comedy.

    

3. Troylus and Cresside

    

   It is a long poem of a love story partly original and partly translated from Boccaccio’s Filostroto. Later, Shakespeare modelled the story in the form of a play of the same name. Pandarus, a humorous character in the poem, anticipates Shakespeare’s Falstaff.

    

4. The Legend of Good Women

    

   In the Legend of Good Women, Chaucer tells the love stories of women of History and Legend and it includes the stories of Cleopatra of Egypt and Dido of Carthage.

    

5. Book of Duchess

    

   It is an elegy written on the death of Blanche of Lancaster, the first wife of John of Gaunt. The poem written in the year 1369 containing 1300 lines, is designed on the dream-setting technique.

    

6. Parliament of Fowls

    

   It is a remarkable short poem composed to celebrate the marriage of Richard II to Anne of Bohemia in 1382. The poem is also modelled on the dream-setting technique and it describes in clear terms how the birds assemble to choose their mates.

    

7. Canterbury Tales

    

It is a collection of stories fitted into a general frame work adopting the technique of Boccaccio’s Decameron and also that of the Arabian Nights. A number of pilgrims including Chaucer collected from the cross section of contemporary society meet at the Tabard Inn on the Southwark, on the eve of their four days’ journey on horseback. The pilgrimage is to the shrine of Thomas Becket, Arch Bishop of Canterbury, who was murdered at the church cathedral at the instance of Henry II, in the year 1172, Becket is worshiped as a saint and martyr by the people of Great Britan.