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Troilus and Criseyde
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(c.1387) *Chaucer's longest single poem, and his most perfect, in which *Boccaccio's story of a doomed pair of young Trojan lovers is retold with far greater subtlety and tenderness. Troilus falls in love with Criseyde and she with him after she has been gently coaxed by her uncle, Pandarus, into accepting his advances. All is well until Criseyde is sent to the Greek camp to join her father, an astronomer. There she is seduced by a Greek, Diomede. Troilus, discovering this, flings himself in despair into the battle and dies.
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