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References

1. ^ The Life of Geoffrey Chaucer, Encyclopedia Britannica, 1910. Accessed March 11, 2008.

General References:

• Benson, Larry D., ed. The Riverside Chaucer. 3rd ed. Boston: Houghton, 1987.
• Davis, Norman, et al. A Chaucer Glossary. New York: Oxford, 1979.
• WATSON, ROBERT A. "Dialogue and Invention in the Book of the Duchess.(philosophical interpretation of Geoffrey Chaucer's work)(Critical Essay)." Modern Philology 98.4 (May 2001): 543.
• Vickery, Gwen M. "'The Book of the Duchess': the date of composition related to theme of impracticality." Essays in Literature 22.n2 (Fall 1995): 161(9).
  • This article disputes the idea that the poem was commemorating the death of Blanche of Lancaster.
• Kittredge, G. L. The Book of the Duchess. Excerpted from: Chaucer and his Poetry