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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Italian Influence in English Poetry.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Assesses the influence--direct and mediated--of Italian literature on English poetry from Chaucer to Robert Southwell (excluding verse drama), considering issues of meter and style as well as plot, atmosphere, and theme. Opens with appreciative comparisons of sections of Chaucer&#039;s works (HF, TC, KnT, ClT, MkT, and various other CT) with their Italian sources in Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio, observing changes in atmosphere and characterization through omissions, additions, and modifications. Comments on details of Chaucer&#039;s travels in Italy, his &quot;genius,&quot; his meter and the relative chronology of his works, and his fusion of Italian models with Latin and French ones.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Prioress: Mercy and Tender Heart.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that Chaucer&#039;s characterization of the Prioress in GP &quot;leaves shadows of doubt&quot; about the Prioress, along with &quot;several kinds of uncertainty&quot; and some &quot;strong implications&quot; for the audience. Further, in PrT, her &quot;own words . . . convict her of bigotry&quot; and oppose the &quot;authentic mind of the Church.&quot; She is not condemned, however: &quot;rather is the poem&#039;s objective view one of understanding pity for her.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Gerard Legh, Herald.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Lends authority to Gerard Legh&#039;s claims about Chaucer&#039;s status at the Inner Temple (and writing HF for a ceremony there) by adducing Legh&#039;s &quot;standing as a heraldist.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Golden Mirror: Studies in Chaucer&#039;s Descriptive Technique and Its Literary Background. ]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Introduces the conventions of &quot;impersonal&quot; style based in classical rhetoric and developed in medieval rhetorical handbooks Then anatomizes the characteristics of Chaucer&#039;s descriptive techniques in relation to his &quot;predecessors and contemporaries,&quot; assessing examples and trends throughout Chaucer&#039;s corpus of his descriptions of emotions, verbal portraits, and landscapes, with attention to structure, rhetoric, diction, and style, providing backgrounds and sources and analogues from classical, Continental, and English medieval literatures.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Exploring Poetry.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Introduces &quot;the study of poetry,&quot; suitable for classroom use. A section on &quot;Implied Argument: Irony and Ambiguity&quot; includes a reading of PardT 6.728-33 that suggests a &quot;profound idea wells up in this passage--the idea that we cannot conceive of bringing an end to death without at the same time destroying the principle of the life-cycle here symbolized by Mother Earth,&quot; even though Chaucer leaves ambiguous &quot;just who the old man is.&quot; The volume also includes for further study excerpts from LGWP-F (the Balade, 249-69), the end of TC (5.1835-48, 1863-69), and the description of Alysoun in MilT 1.3221-70) .]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the Holy Cross of Bromholm.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Clarifies the appropriateness of Symkin&#039;s wife swearing by the &quot;croys of Bromeholm&quot; (RvT 1. 4286), adducing Roger of Wendover&#039;s &quot;Flores Historiarum&quot; and, possibly, the clerical status of the wife&#039;s father.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Two Notes on Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Troilus.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Suggests sources in Boccaccio&#039;s &quot;Filostrato&quot; for the &quot;corounes tweyne&quot; of TC 2.1735 (noting parallels with SNT 8.221) and for the Invocation to light in the Proem to TC 3, reinforced by several other echoes of &quot;Filostrato.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[100 Poems About People.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Anthologizes a selection of poetic characterizations or descriptions of people, historical and fictional, from English poetry. Includes the GP description of the Clerk (1.285-309), in Frank Ernest Hill&#039;s 1930 translation.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Morality as a Comic Motif in the Canterbury Tales.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Identifies the &quot;contrast between surface respectability and corrupt motive [as] the keenest source of the comedy&quot; in ShT, and suggests that there is a pun on &quot;cozen&quot; and &quot;cousin.&quot; Explores similar contrasts and other devices in CT that produce comic irony rather instead of moral assertion: suggestive imagery and juxtaposition, the &quot;simplicity&quot; of the CT narrator, &quot;double exposure, first of the pilgrim, then indirectly of the futility of overt moral stricture,&quot; and self-exposing conflicts between sets of pilgrims.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The &quot;Canterbury Tales&quot;: Early Manuscripts and Relative Popularity.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Questions Germaine Dempster&#039;s 1948 suggestions about the production of &quot;manuscripts postulated as heads of genetic groups&quot; and lines of descent for CT witnesses, offering several alternative explanations. Includes attention to the change of ink in the Hengwrt manuscript at MerT 4.2318, and offers surmises about the relative popularity of individual tales in early reception history.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Name of Chaucer&#039;s Friar.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Suggests that the Friar&#039;s name, &quot;Huberd&quot; (GP 1.269), &quot;may be an ironic literary allusion, to Hubert &#039;l&#039;escoufle,&#039; the kite, a bird of prey, and a lewd cleric and confessor in the Old French poems of the &#039;Renart&#039; tradition.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer: A Meaning of &quot;Philosophye.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Considers &quot;Of Aristotle and his commentators and disciples&quot; to be the &quot;most worthy&quot; of several possible meanings of &quot;Aristotle and his philosophye&quot; in the description of the Clerk&#039;s books in GP 1.295.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Pardoner, the Scriptural Eunuch, and the Pardoner&#039;s Tale.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Follows W. C. Curry (1926) in understanding the Pardoner to be a eunuch, and explores the Biblical and exegetical implications of this characterization, reinforced by animal imagery, and associated with the Pauline &quot;vetus homo&quot; (Old Man), arguing that together they convey unregenerate cupidity, pride, and spiritual danger to those who follow the path to which he leads. Includes recurrent contrasts between the Pardoner and the Parson.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[An Interpretation of Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Parlement of Foules.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Shows how the theme of common profit and the figure of tolerant Nature bridge the opposing views of the love among the high- and low-class birds in PF. Other contrastive pairs in the poem--the two sides of the gate, Priapus and Venus, etc.--anticipate the idealistic and realistic attitudes of the birds.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s &quot;The Merchant&#039;s Tale,&quot; 2257-2261.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Suggests that &quot;double meaning seems deliberate&quot; in a pun on &quot;lecher&quot; and &quot;healer&quot; in Pluto&#039;s use of &quot;lechour&quot; (MerT 4.2257) when he pledges to restore January&#039;s eyesight.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Summary of Statius&#039; Thebaid II-XII.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Quotes, translates, and anatomizes the Latin &quot;arguments&quot; of the &quot;books&quot; found in Statius&#039; &quot;Thebaid&quot; that underlie Cassandra&#039;s summary of the Statius&#039; work in TC 5.1457-1533, with its twelve-line Latin summary interpolated in most TC manuscripts. Comments on manuscript witnesses, and shows that Chaucer used the arguments found in Statius as source material.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;Canterbury Tales,&quot; F 1541-44.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Suggests that a portion of Dorigen&#039;s speech in FranT (5.1541-44) has wrongly been ascribed to her by various editors, indicating why it should better be assigned to the Franklin as narrator. Also suggests that the reference to a &quot;clerk&quot; (Fran 5.1611) by the &quot;philosophre&quot; is a correct reading, despite counter-suggestions by Manly and Rickert.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Canterbury Tales A 11.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Suggests that editors consider capitalizing &quot;nature&quot; in GP 1.11, arguing that Chaucer personifies Nature as &quot;virtually the patron saint of birds&quot; in PF.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Masterplots: 510 Plots in Story from the World&#039;s Fine Literature. 2 vols.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Includes (vol. 2, pp. 1030-31) a summary of the plot and main characters of TC, categorizing it as a &quot;Chivalric romance,&quot; and praising it as an &quot;almost perfectly constructed narrative poem&quot; with &quot;effective depiction of character&quot; that &quot;forecast[s] the shrewd observations of human nature made in&quot; GP.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Retraction and Mediaeval Canons of Seemliness.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Distinguishes medieval and modern notions of &quot;seemliness&quot;--a sociological concern distinct from legality and morality--and clarifies medieval ideas of linguistic, sartorial, aesthetic, and marital propriety in CT, observing a &quot;gap&quot; between what is &quot;seemly&quot; and what is &quot;morally acceptable&quot; concerning marriage. Explores standards of seemliness as they are reflected in Th and Mel, in the views of other tales expressed by Chaucer-narrator, and in Ret.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Of Sondry Folk: The Dramatic Principle in the Canterbury Tales.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reads the CT as a sustained dramatic narrative, following the Chaucer Society order of the tales, and paying particular attention to the GP and the links among the tales. Focuses on characterization of the pilgrims, especially the Host, and their professional antagonisms, personal motives, and self-revelation. Categorizes the pilgrims by &quot;three stages of dramatic development or three techniques of characterization: simple suiting of tale and teller; suiting of tale and teller, &quot;plus an externally motivated dramatic situation&quot;; and suiting of tale and teller, external dramatic motive, plus &quot;internally motivated and extended self-revelation of which the teller is not fully aware.&quot; Includes a portrait of each character discussed, line drawings by Malcolm Thurgood.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Gildsmen and Their Cook.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Identifies satiric elements in the description of the Guildsmen in GP--stylistic jibes and social critique, including the association of them with the Cook, who is later identifiable as the historic Roger de Ware, of ill repute.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;The Noble Savage&quot; until Shakespeare.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Cites Bo and quotes portions of &quot;The Former Age&quot; as evidence of medieval transmission of ancient ideas about &quot;about the happy age before the coming of civilization.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the Medieval Miller.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Clarifies the typicality of Chaucer&#039;s Miller by identifying characteristics that &quot;were commonly ascribed to millers in late-medieval literature.&quot; Like analogous miller&#039;s, he is &quot;is red-haired, coarse-featured, socially ambitious, muscular, well-armed, vulgar, drunken, stupid, and dishonest; and he associates with the reeve.&quot; Despite &quot;many individual traits and a convincing personality,&quot; the Miller &quot;conforms to the medieval concept of what a miller should be.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Seven Centuries of Poetry: Chaucer to Dylan Thomas.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Anthologizes in chronological order poems and extracts from English poetry written in Britain, including selections from Chaucer in Middle English (pp. 5-8): &quot;Now welcome, somer&quot; (PF 680), &quot;At the gate&quot; (TC 5.1114-1183), and &quot;The fresshe flour&quot; (LGWP-F 115-24), no notes and few glosses.]]></dcterms:description>
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