Part 1. Early appreciations. William Caxton -- John Dryden -- William Blake -- William Hazlitt -- Matthew Arnold -- Part 2. Twentieth-century criticism. Chaucer's discussion of marriage -- Chaucer the pilgrim -- Chaucer's Prologue to pilgrimage : the two voices -- An interpretation of Chaucer's Knight's Tale -- Idiom of popular poetry in the Miller's Tale -- Irony in the Wife of Bath's Tale -- Irony in the Merchant's tale -- The art of Chaucer's Franklin -- The narrative art of the pardoner's Tale -- The Nun's priest's Tale - The Canon's Yeoman's Tale.