This collection of the works of Chaucer has been edited by Walter William Skeat, who was scrupulous in producing a sound text based on the best manuscripts, and eschewing inauthentic works that had been spuriously attributed to Chaucer. Skeat also includes thorough detail on the nature of Chaucer's Middle English language.

The present Cambridge Edition of Mr. Lowell's poems contains, substantially in the order established by the author, the poems included by him not long before his death in the definitive Riverside Edition of his writings, and in addition the small group contained in the Last Poems, collected by his literary executor, Mr. Charles Eliot Norton. - Publisher's note.

Included in this edition are: the latest text adopted by the poet; the chronological order of the poems; the date of composition and that of publication of each poem; the essays and prefaces on poetry written between 1800 and 1845; a body of notes which Wordsworth printed in his various editions; notes revealing the time, place, occasion, and circumstance out of which each poem had its origin, and much more.