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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;Moedes or Prolaciouns&quot; in Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Boece.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Suggests that the insertion of &quot;prolaciouns&quot; in Bo 2.pr.1 was intended as a technical clarification of the preceding &quot;moedes,&quot; potentially misleading to English readers who could read it as either &quot;mood&quot; or &quot;mode.&quot; The insertion may evince the musical sophistication of Chaucer or, perhaps, of the English author of a translation pony Chaucer may have used.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Authorship of the &quot;Equatorie of the Planetis&quot;: The Use of Romance Vocabulary as Evidence.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Tabulates the percentage of romance words in the works of Chaucer against the overall length of these works, suggesting that, in terms of its romance vocabulary, Equat &quot;is to be regarded as a work by Chaucer.&quot; Establishes a logarithmic formula for these calculations and includes statistical comparison with other writers, such as Gower, Mandeville, Shakespeare, and Milton.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[They Tell of Birds: Chaucer, Spenser, Milton, Drayton.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Describes birds mentioned by four English poets, one chapter apiece. An opening chapter surveys classical backgrounds for zoological and interpretive ornithology, along with the uses of birds in medieval encyclopedias. The Chaucer chapter addresses bird-lists and birds in Rom, PF, and NPT, with attention to sources, moral implications of bird imagery, and Chaucer&#039;s development as an artist. Includes an Index to Birds Named by Chaucer, Spenser, Milton, and Drayton.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Use of the Mystery Plays in the &quot;Miller&#039;s Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Identifies sources for a number of instances in MilT where Chaucer parodies, ridicules, or alludes to mystery plays--most evident in the characterizations of the Miller and Absolon as influenced by stage-versions of Pilate and/or Herod and the parody of a Noah play in the &quot;carpenter episode.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Studies on Chaucer and His Audience.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Includes four chapters, each devoted to a single poem as addressed on a particular occasion and/or to a particular audience, considered in light of rhetorical traditions, genre expectations, oral concerns, and sources: 1) SNT on the occasion of a royal visit to Norwich Cathedral Priory, perhaps to &quot;recognize the nomination of Adam Easton as cardinal priest of Santa Cecilia in Travestere&quot;; 2) PF as, at least in part, a response to the &quot;Pavo&quot; of Jordanus of Osnabruck and designed for an oral audience; 3) MLT, addressed to merchants, commemorating Constance of Castile, ca. 1382 or 1383, about the same time as SNT; and 4) Purse, and the political implications of referring to Henry IV as &quot;conquerour of Brutes Albyoun,&quot; a name for England Chaucer uses nowhere else. The Introduction to the volume includes commentary on features of orality in TC and other poems.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Structure and Meaning in the &quot;Parlement of Foules.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that, although derived from differing sources, the three parts of PF--the prelude, the garden of love, and the debate--are unified in their presentation of three perspectives on love. Framed as a conventional love vision, the poem juxtaposes a stern, moralistic view of love, an exalted, courtly one, and a natural, &quot;realistic&quot; one. Together, the three provide a gentle &quot;comedy of attitudes&quot; that testifies to the power of love and the inadequacy of any single view of it.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[An Early Newspaper Reference to Chaucer.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Identifies a politically cautious reference to CT in the &quot;opening lines&quot; of the &quot;Kingdomes Weekly Intelligence,&quot; no. 241, &quot;covering the week of Dec. 28, 1647, to Jan. 4, 1648.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Some Word-Play in Chaucer&#039;s Reeve&#039;s Tale.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Suggests that the pun on &quot;hooly&quot; in RvT 1.3983-84 as &quot;holy&quot; and wholly&quot; encourages us to also see further word-play in the tale: &quot;panne&quot; as &quot;penny&quot; at 1.3944 and &quot;allye&quot; as &quot;alloy&quot; at 1.3945, both related to recognizing the connotations of &quot;bras&quot; as counterfeit at 1.3944. Adduces brass as alloy and counterfeit in ClT 4.1167-69]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Sir Topas, 772-774.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores Chaucer&#039;s association between love-longing and the song-thrush in Th 7.772-74, clarifying the significance of the bird in patristic commentary, bestiaries, and poetic tradition, and suggesting that it may indicate  that Thopas&#039;s passion for the elf-queen is both absurd and carnal.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Pandarus a Devil?]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Considers manuscripts, editions, translations, and contemporary examples to explore Troilus&#039;s use of &quot;devel&quot; in TC 1.623, documenting variety in reading it as direct address, expletive, or exclamation. Shows that Troilus is not calling Pandarus a devil despite D. W. Robertson&#039;s ascertain that he was.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Six Great Poets: Chaucer, Pope, Wordsworth, Shelley, Tennyson, the Brownings.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The opening chapter offers subjective, impressionistic appreciation of Chaucer&#039;s life, language, poetry, and links among them, proclaiming Chaucer to be &quot;one of the most English of our poets&quot; in his &quot;tolerance, sweetness, and the lambent flame of an all-pervading irony,&quot; and one who &quot;stood alone&quot; in his own age for his realism, comedy, and acceptance of humanity, foibles and all. Includes summary descriptions of TC and CT, with emphasis on characterization and thematic generosity. Includes a b&amp;w reproduction of the National Portrait Gallery image.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[On the Pleasure of Meeting Chaucer.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Appreciative criticism of CT, particularly Chaucer&#039;s realism, stylistic variety, and deft characterization, including that of his own persona. Comments on his life and language and on the appropriateness of individual tales to their tellers. Reads PrT as a &quot;weapon&quot; to help in the destruction of ignorance.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The &quot;Shipman&#039;s Tale&quot; Was Meant for the Shipman.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Challenges claims that the first-person feminine pronouns of ShT 7.11-19 indicate that the tale was originally intended to be told by the Wife of Bath, reading the lines as if they were presented in a &quot;miming male&quot; voice, and suggesting that the tale is particularly appropriate to the Shipman as a response to the Merchant, dramatization of antagonism between their two linked professions.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Fowle Ok&quot; and &quot;The Pardoner&#039;s Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Suggests that the portentous oak of PardT 6.765 (no species mentioned in analogues) gains dimension in light of Chaucer having been robbed at a &quot;fowle oak&quot; in Kent in 1390, and also suggests, therefore, that Chaucer must have been written PardT after this incident.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The &quot;Wife of Bath&#039;s Tale&quot; and the Mirror Tradition.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Comments on how &quot;the medieval mirror and wisdom metaphor is utilized&quot; in WBP and helps to characterize the Wife, ironically, as a figure of comic &quot;worldly prudence&quot; rather than true wisdom. Cites other examples from CT of ironic characterization &quot;built basically on a contrast between exemplary or mirror values and realistic details.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer, the Man of Law&#039;s Introduction and Tale.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Suggests that Chaucer&#039;s dismissive reference to incest in MLP 77ff. alludes not to Gower&#039;s &quot;Confessio Amantis&quot; but to his own hesitation in writing a version of the &quot;well known folk tale of the Incestuous Father,&quot; hesitating &quot;on grounds of taste to write a religious tale in which incest was an essential element of the plot.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer, the Clerk&#039;s Prologue.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Connects the Clerk&#039;s uses of &quot;heigh style/stile&quot; in ClP 4.18 and 41 rather than reading the latter as a mistranslation of Petrarch &quot;stylo alio&quot; as stylo alto.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Puns.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Recounts the scholarly tally of puns in Chaucer, locates the device in rhetorical tradition, and clarifies its wide range of stylistic effects. Then provides an alphabetical list of puns in Chaucer&#039;s works (more than 100), both previously known examples and ones newly identified. Supplemented in PMLA 73 (1958): 167-70.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The &quot;Shipman&#039;s Tale&quot; and the Wife of Bath.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Objects to Robert L. Chapman&#039;s argument that the ShT was originally intended for the Shipman, not the Wife Bath, comparing Chaucer&#039;s tale with Boccaccio&#039;s &quot;Decameron&quot; 8.1 as examples of the &quot;Lover&#039;s Gift Regained&quot; motif, and showing that Chaucer&#039;s version is &quot;an important contribution to the characterization&quot; and &quot;personality&quot; of the Wife.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Another Modernized &quot;Shipman&#039;s Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Identifies and summarizes a close, modern analogue of ShT, written by Shelby Foote and published in &quot;The Nugget&quot; (November, 1955); comments on the oral transmission described by Foote in an interview and points outs several modern emphases.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A Recurring Motif in Chaucer&#039;s &quot;House of Fame.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that themes of the &quot;nature of literary art&quot; and &quot;the material with which the literary artist deals&quot; unify the HF: the opening of the poem focuses on how &quot;literary artist&#039;s imagination finds expression&quot;; the eagle articulates an intellectual perspective in contrast to the artistic one; the House of Fame reflects the artist&#039;s role in conveying reputation, and the House of Rumor makes clear that truth or falsity are not essential concerns of art.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[On Two Chaucer Allusions.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Comments on two 1954 publications (by John Owen and Philip Williams respectively) that pertain to Chaucer allusions, observing that both had been previously noticed and that the latter failed to identify a so-called &quot;saying of Chaucer&quot; as a refrain in Lydgate&#039;s &quot;A Balade of good counsaile,&quot; presented as part of Chaucer&#039;s corpus in several editions of Chaucer&#039;s work, Renaissance to modern.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Vincent of Beauvais and the &quot;Houres&quot; of Chaucer&#039;s Physician.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Adduces Vincent of Beauvais&#039; &quot;Speculum Doctrinale&quot; to support reading &quot;houres&quot; in Chaucer&#039;s description of the Physician (GP 1.416) as a plural of &quot;the technical Latin term for each stage of the development of a disease.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Essentials of Early English.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Introduces Old English, Middle English, and Early Modern English, describing developments in syntax, morphology, pronunciation, lexicon, and dialects. The selection of samples for discussion and assessment includes excerpts from GP, PardT, and ParsT, with a brief description, notes, and glosses.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Between the Normative and the Performative: Sex, Parody, and Other (In)tractable Issues in Geoffrey Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Miller&#039;s Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Maintains that Chaucer uses parody to critique discrepancies between Christian ideals and human realities, exploring ways that sexual activities and descriptions in MilT, an earthy fabliau, parody the courtly ideals of KnT, an idealized romance. Through MilT, Chaucer challenges courtly ideals and &quot;doctrinal inflexibility.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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