Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Chaucer the Rival Poet in Shakespeare's Sonnets: A New Theory
The various books to which I am under obliga tion for much of my information have been duly mentioned in the text. I should also state that I have found very valuable Dr. Caroline Spurgeon's Five Hundred Years of Chaucer Criticism. I have to express my best thanks to my friend Mr. F. G. Rucker for so kindly looking through the proofs.
It was thought better to modernise some of the spelling of Chaucer, and that of the Sonnets almost entirely, for the sake of those readers who are not familiar with Middle or Elizabethan English. In some cases it seemed better to preserve the old spelling. It is regretted that it was not found possible to adopt any consistent plan in doing this, but it was felt that whatever interest or value the book might possess was not dependent upon etymological exactness.
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