Singer, Irving.
Modern Language Notes 90. 6 (1975): 767-83.
Assesses the attitudes toward love and internality reflected in various accounts of the Dido and Aeneas story: Virgil's "Aeneid," Ovid's "Heroides," the "Roman d'Enéas," Chaucer's LGW, and Marlowe's "Dido Queen of Carthage." Chaucer derives his…
An introductory textbook grammar of Middle English, particularly Chaucer's dialect, with a brief history of the English language and descriptions of the parts of speech, morphology, pronunciation, etc. Includes an edition of the GP, edited from the…
Compares relations between cosmology and psychology in medieval and modern understandings of poetry, emphasizing the concentric and expanding perspectives prompted by Middle English imagery and world views, exemplified in several lyrics. Includes…
Liebman, Arthur, ed.
New York: Richards Rosen, 1975.
An anthology of eighteen examples of short crime fiction, arranged chronologically from Chaucer to Ray Bradbury, with a general Introduction and brief comments introducing the tales. Includes PardT (pp. 3-12) in the prose translation of R. M.…
Ito, Masayoshi.
John Gower, The Medieval Poet (Tokyo: Shinozaki Shorin, 1976), pp. 25-38.
Compares the aesthetic virtues and limitations of MLT in comparison with Gower's Tale of Constance, observing how Gower's account is more proportionate than Chaucer’s, even though the latter exhibits more complex characterization, humor, and…
Ito, Masayoshi.
John Gower, The Medieval Poet (Tokyo: Shinozaki Shorin, 1976), pp. 39-59.
Compares and contrasts the style, characterization, sentiment, and structure of nine narratives of shared subject matter among Chaucer's and Gower's works. Concludes that Gower's are superior in formal features, "such as balance and unity," but that…
Ito, Masayoshi.
John Gower, The Medieval Poet (Tokyo: Shinozaki Shorin, 1976), pp. 101-18.
Compares Gower's art and skill in using rhyme royal stanzas with Chaucer's, arguing that Chaucer's are superior and more flexibly adapted to narrative, largely because the "fetters of the ballade stanza" constrain Gower's dexterity. Originally…
Ito, Masayoshi.
John Gower, The Medieval Poet (Tokyo: Shinozaki Shorin, 1976), pp. 80-100.
Explores Gower's development of his Tale of Jason and Medea in light of its sources and multiple analogues, emphasizing its success as a "beautiful love story." Includes points of comparison with Chaucer's version in LGW. Originally published in…
Blodgett, James Edward.
Dissertation Abstracts International 36 (1976): 5311A.
Two mss and a copy of Caxton's edition contain marks indicating that they provided printer's copy for Thynne's edition. The readings which differ from the printer's copy indicate that Thynne also collated with other mss. Because of his access to…
Courtney, Eleanor Lewer.
Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Arizona, 1975. xlv, 387 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 37 (1976): 327A. Fully accessible via https://repository.arizona.edu/handle/10150/290393 (accessed April 12, 2026).
The Introduction is a survey of trends in Chaucer criticism 1964-71. Robertson's 'Preface to Chaucer' and Jordan's 'Chaucer and the Shape of Creation' are found especially influential. The second part is an annotated bibliography of 1218 items,…
Chaucer's childhood was pleasant and stimulating. He was a close and lifelong friend of John of Gaunt. Alice Perrers was likewise his close friend and patron. Richard was an intelligent, sensitive ruler, more sinned against than sinning. In 1398,…
Medieval and classical notions of space and time cause "pryvetee" to be related to "oiseuse" and "otium." Spatial relationships emphasize that major events, like the little fall which occurs in the carpenter's house in MilT, are arranged around a…
Holley, Linda Tarte.
Dissertation Abstracts International 36 (1976): 8075A.
Medieval thinkers reverenced the word for its power to give order to experience, but Chaucer throughout his writings calls attention to the unreliability of the word.
Huntsman, Jeffrey F.
Modern Philology 73 (1976): 276-79.
Medieval English and Latin dictionaries such as the "Medulla gramatice" can often be of great value in textual criticism,offering solutions to several Chaucerian cruces: "stot" (CT III, 1630) "whore"; "nakers" (CT I, 2511) "horns"; "astromye" (CT I,…
