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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Geoffrey Chaucer.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Describes Chaucer&#039;s life and works, with an introduction to historical backgrounds, a chronology of events, a summary of critical reception, a bibliography for further reading, and an index. The biography emphasizes dates and events, and the survey of Chaucer&#039;s corpus includes a summary description of each work, attention to style and themes, and a synopsis of critical opinions. Treats CT and TC most extensively, but includes discussion of the translations (Rom, Bo, and Astr); the dream poems, here called &quot;Short Poems&quot; (BD, HF, PF, LGW, with Anel); and the short poems, here called &quot;Minor Poems,&quot; the latter considered individually or in groups (complaints, ballads, and envoys).]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Comic Tales of Chaucer.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Summarizes each of the &quot;comic&quot; tales of CT, with appreciative, inferential, scene-by-scene commentary on techniques of characterization, situations, and enlivening details that make the Tales &quot;amusing.&quot; Essentially farcical, the action of MilT results more from &quot;character and situation&quot; than coincidence; similarly farcical, RvT provides enjoyment via &quot;poetic justice,&quot; opportunism, and &quot;mistakes in the night.&quot; ShT suffers from a &quot;thin plot,&quot; but offers clever talk and an &quot;intellectual&quot; climax. The simple action of NPT is well adorned with &quot;disproportions,&quot; &quot;incongruities,&quot; and &quot;comicalities,&quot; many of which burlesque MkT. The exchange of FrT and SumT succeeds because of balance among farce, satire, ironies, poetic justice, and surprise. MerT combines &quot;cool&quot; irony, &quot;biting&quot; satire, and indirection that produce rich innuendo and drama of character. Also comments on comic elements in Th, CkT, and CYT.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer: Poet of Mirth and Morality.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Describes how Chaucer&#039;s &quot;mirth reveals his moral premises&quot; and conveys joy throughout his poetic corpus, explaining how the early dream poems, in varying degrees, communicate the progress of the comic narrators toward greater moral and philosophic realizations about kinds of love. At times reflecting PF, TC combines Boethius&#039;s &quot;divinely comic philosophy&quot; with Chaucer&#039;s awareness of human exuberance and excess to disclose the tragedy of fortune and human blindness. Generally, CT reveals the order and Providential justice implicit in human diversity and limitation. Part 1 lays out &quot;modes&quot; of comedy, complemented by the mirth of the religious tales and the dramatic interplay of the Marriage Group. Comedy &quot;unmasks&quot; vice in FrT, SumT, and PardPT, while Th, Mel, MkT, and NPT are more oblique in their expressions of moral philosophy. CYPT and ManPT diminish &quot;comic joy and zest&quot; but ParsT and Ret replace them with penitential forgiveness.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Exegetical Grammar in the &quot;House of Fame.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reads Chaucer&#039;s summary of Virgil&#039;s &quot;Aeneid&quot; in Book 1 of HF as comic--a parody of several practices of &quot;exegetical grammar,&quot; including translation, &quot;dictiones ethicae&quot; (soliloquies), paraphrase, and moral interpretation. The purpose of the parody is &quot;to consider, and to reject, the uses of grammar for poetry.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[English Literature: A Portrait Gallery.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reproduces in black and white the London National Portrait Gallery panel portrait of Chaucer (p. 2), preceded by a brief comment on Chaucer&#039;s life, with reference to William Dunbar&#039;s praise of him, mention of the TC frontispiece portrait (Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 61), and the claim that the &quot;basis of the panel illustration&quot; is the illustration of Chaucer that accompanies Thomas Hoccleve &quot;Regement of Princes&quot; (British Library, MS Harley 4866, f. 88r).]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Middle Ages, Renaissance, and Reformation.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Includes a selection from GP (ll. 1-719) and PardPT in J. U. Nicolson&#039;s modern English translation (1939), with a brief appreciative introduction.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Archers&#039; Feathers in Chaucer and Ascham.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Adduces the testimony of modern archer, Robert P. Elmer, corroborating that peacock feathers are high quality material for fletching, and a notion thought to underlie Chaucer&#039;s reference in the GP description of the Yeoman (1.104).]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274520">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Longfellow&#039;s Chaucer.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explicates Henry Wadsworth Longfellow&#039;s Italian sonnet &quot;Chaucer,&quot; emphasizing its imitation of aspects of Chaucer&#039;s style, particularly drawn from BD.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Friars: Swans or Swains? &quot;Summoner&#039;sTale,&quot; D 1390.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reads the noun &quot;swan&quot; as &quot;swain&quot; in the rhyming comparison with &quot;Jovinyan&quot; in SumT 3.1930, adducing logic, consistency of imagery, and source material.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s &quot;The Summoner&#039;s Tale, D 2184-2188.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Comments on the uses of &quot;master&quot; and &quot;Rabbi&quot; in SumT 3.2184-88 as a means to convey the hypocrisy of the Summoner&#039;s friar (along with Chaucer&#039;s Friar in GP 1.261). The references are rooted in the biblical source, Matthew 23:5-11.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A New Look at &quot;The Complaint of Chaucer to His Purse.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Describes the involvement of Thomas Chaucer and Thomas Swynford in matters related to the deposition and death of Richard II, suggesting that they help to account for the tone and perspective in Purse (especially the Envoy) and Henry&#039;s swift and positive response to Chaucer&#039;s request in the poem.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Swallow and Dove &quot;Sittynge on a berne&quot; (&quot;MilT&quot;, I, 3258, &quot;Pard Prol&quot;, VI, 397).]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that Chaucer&#039;s references to a swallow in Alison&#039;s song (MilT 1. 3257-58) and to a dove in the Pardoner&#039;s claim about preaching (PardP 6.397) are suggestive, and may well derive from his familiarity with the two birds.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Bukke and Hare&quot; (&quot;Thop&quot; VII, 756).]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Exploring the &quot;bukke and hare&quot; of Th 7.756 for their &quot;traditional attributes&quot; rather than as suggestive game animals, documents that their associations with timidity and, reading &quot;bukke&quot; as &quot;goat rather than &quot;male deer,&quot; sexual pursuit.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Alison Identified (&quot;The Miller&#039;s Tale,&quot; 3234). [Three parts]]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores anatomical and associative parallels between Alison of MilT and the weasel, an animal to which she is likened via simile (1.3234); maintains that the connections lend symbolic depth to the characterization.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s &quot;ferthing of grece.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that an analogue (perhaps source) of Chaucer&#039;s image of a coin-shaped (&quot;farthing&quot;) spot of grease in his GP description of the Prioress (1.134) is &quot;Clef d&#039;amors,&quot; line 3236. The play in the French may derive from a punning echo of &quot;speck&quot; and &quot;halfpenny&quot; (&quot;maillete&quot; and &quot;mäaillete&quot;).]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Parson&#039;s Tale&quot; 1025: A Probable Source.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Offers the &quot;Pseudo-Augustinian treatise on penance &#039;De Vera et Falsa Poenitentia, Liber Una&#039;,&quot; as the source of ParsT 10.1025 where Augustine is cited.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274511">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Confucius to Cummings: An Anthology of Poetry.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Includes selections from GP (1-27, 118-26 and 150-62 [Prioress], 165-66 and 177-87 [Monk], 270-75 [Merchant], and 309-22 [Sergeant at Law]), MerB, and the &quot;Roundel&quot; from PF. In Middle English, without notes or glosses.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274510">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Character of Chaucer&#039;s Merchant,]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Absolves the Merchant of the illegal practices, usurious dealings, and insolvency previously inferred by critics, providing historical information and examples that indicate that the GP description portrays a skilled practitioner who &quot;gives a public appearance of great financial solidity&quot; based on &quot;complex transactions&quot; of credit. Clarifies &quot;in eschaunge sheeldes selle&quot; (GP 1.278), &quot;chevyssaunce&quot; (GP 1.282), and the syntax and emphases of 1.280-82.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Canterbury Tales: Notes.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Includes a chronology of Chaucer&#039;s life and works, a discursive &quot;Sketch of His Life and Times,&quot; a description of his language, summaries and commentaries on all of CT (in Ellesmere order), a list of the pilgrims with brief characterizations, descriptions of themes and techniques, twenty-two questions for &quot;Examination and Review,&quot; and a brief bibliography.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Miller and &quot;Pilates Voys.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Suggests that the assigning of &quot;Pilates voys&quot; to the Miller (MilP 1.3124) may be due in part to the apocryphal notion that Pilate was the son of a miller&#039;s daughter, as recorded in the &quot;Legenda Aurea.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274507">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[An Echo of Chaucer in &quot;The Kingis Quair.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Asserts that a portion of stanza 137 of &quot;Kingis Quair&quot; echoes the meaning and rhyme of ClT 4.1164-66.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Roger Bacon&#039;s &quot;in convexitate&quot; and Chaucer&#039;s &quot;In convers&quot; (&quot;Troilus and Criseyde&quot;. V. 1810).]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Cites Roger Bacon&#039;s &quot;Tractatus brevis . . . in libro Secreti Secretorum Aristotilis&quot; as possible justification for emending &quot;convers&quot; to &quot;convex&quot; in the reference to the eighth sphere in TC 5.1910, despite the lack of textual support.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[George Wither and Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Troilus and Criseyde&quot;, I. 813ff.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Locates echoes of TC 1.813-19 in George Wither&#039;s &quot;Sonnet&quot; 4 in &quot;Faire-Virtue, the Mistress of Philarete&quot; (1622).]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A Reading of the &quot;Canterbury Tales.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reads CT as a thematic engagement with the need for humans to pursue spiritual pilgrimage, considering allegorical and symbolic imagery and focusing on charity, &quot;caritas,&quot; and contempt for engagement with the world (&quot;contemptus mundi&quot;). Explores springtime, pilgrimage, and the narrative persona in GP and ParsP, counterpoises the spiritual idealism of KnT with the realism of MilT, and investigates the symbolic values of marriage and worldly activism in MLT, WBPT, ClT, MerT, FranT, and NPT. Treats &quot;ecclesiastical corruption&quot; as a worldly danger in SumT, FrT, and PardPT, and the need for stalwart faith and penance in ShT, PrT, MkT, SNT, and ParsPT. Includes recurrent attention to source material and exegetical commentary on biblical references and echoes.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Wife of Bath as Student of Ovid.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Maintains that the Wife of Bath&#039;s knowledge of the &quot;remedies of love&quot; and of the &quot;art&quot; of love&#039;s &quot;olde daunce&quot; (GP 1.475-76) refer to, respectively, Ovid&#039;s &quot;Remedia Amoris&quot; and &quot;Ars Amatoria,&quot; familiar to her, perhaps (&quot;per chaunce&quot;) because Jankyn read them to her from his &quot;book of wkked wyves&quot; (WBT 3.685).]]></dcterms:description>
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