| Acknowledgement | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-6页 |
| 摘要 | 第6-8页 |
| Introduction | 第8-11页 |
| Chapter One Chaucer And Middle Age Literature | 第11-26页 |
| ·Chaucer’s Life and Chaucer’s Poetic Life | 第11-20页 |
| ·Chaucer’s Life | 第11-19页 |
| ·Chaucer’s Poetic Life | 第19-20页 |
| ·Middle Age Literature | 第20-26页 |
| ·The Ideology of The Middle Age | 第20-22页 |
| ·The Reality And The Tradition of The Middle Age Literature | 第22-26页 |
| Chapter Two Traditional Middle Age Poetic Types and Their Influence on Chaucer .19 | 第26-44页 |
| ·Dream-Poems | 第26-35页 |
| ·Dream Visions in Ancient Times and Their Influence on Chaucer | 第26-30页 |
| ·The French Dream-Poems and Chaucer’s Modification | 第30-35页 |
| ·The Debate-Poems | 第35-41页 |
| ·The Evolving of This Literary Type and Chaucer’sAdoption | 第35-38页 |
| ·A Combination of Dream and Debate | 第38-41页 |
| ·Demande d'Amour | 第41-44页 |
| Chapter Three Sources, HistoricAllegories and Chaucer’s Originality | 第44-63页 |
| ·Historic Allegories | 第44-50页 |
| ·Chaucer’s Motive behind The Parlement of Foules | 第44-46页 |
| ·The Disputes over The Date of The Poem | 第46-48页 |
| ·The Identities of The Formel and Her Three Suitors | 第48-50页 |
| ·Sources | 第50-63页 |
| ·Sources of Certain Parts of the Poem and Chaucer’s Modifications | 第50-56页 |
| ·Paradiso As the Most parallel Major Source | 第56-60页 |
| ·The Similarities between the Two Works and Chaucer’s Originality | 第60-63页 |
| Chapter Four The Creativity of The Parlement of Foules and Chaucer’s Treatment of The Sources | 第63-74页 |
| ·A Critical Survey and The Creativity of The Parlement of Foules | 第63-69页 |
| ·Chaucer’s Treatment of The Sources throughAddition and Creative Writing | 第69-74页 |
| Conclusion | 第74-76页 |
| Bibliography | 第76-79页 |