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Merlo, Carolyn.   English Language Notes 17 (1979): 88-90.
Though "the rede" may be taken as referring to either Phaethon or his father Phoebus, Phaethon is in Ovid the red-haired boy burning in the sky, who falls to earth as a human torch;"rede Phaethon" shows fidelity to Chaucer's source and intensifies…

Shepherd, Geoffrey T.   Mary Salu and Robert T. Farrell, eds. J. R. R. Tolkien: Essays in Memoriam (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1979), pp. 204-20.
Chaucer questions the nature of storytelling and the possibility of writing "truth" in imaginative literature. Two words express the divergence of the problem in the Middle Ages: "sooth," which is axiomatic truth (often expressed proverbially);…

Shook, Laurence K.   Beryl Rowland, ed. Companion to Chaucer Studies (New York: Oxford University Press, 1979), pp. 414-27.
HF is a poem about the art of poetry, for to be one of "Love's folk" was, in the medieval view, to be a poet also.

Vance, Eugene.   Boundary 27.2 (1979): 17-37.
Argues that Chaucer's concerns in HF are metalinguistic by drawing an analogy between verbal inflation (high style) and monetary inflation (which was rampant in Chaucer's day). Both words and coins are arbitrary signs and mediums of exchange;…

Fisher, John H.   Beryl Rowland, ed. Companion to Chaucer Studies (New York: Oxford University Press, 1979), pp. 464-76.
In this century discussions of LGW have centered on two points: the historical occasion of the poem and its significance as a stage in Chaucer's artistic development. Not until the last decade has criticism concerned itself with the artistry of the…

Kiser, Lisa Jean.   Dissertation Abstracts International 39 (1979): 4275A.
LGWP reveals the God of Love's misreading of TC and Rom. The stories that follow must be read with Alceste's self-sacrifice and resurrection in mind. With Alceste's powers of "translatio," the sinful pagan lovers rise again to live in Christian…

Shigeo, Hisashi.   The Meiji Gakuin Review (November, 1979): 19-43. Meiji Gakuin University.
Chaucer's attitude toward love should be observed in the continuity of his works. LGW, which comes in between TC and CT, plays an important part in this connection. Here, human love is once again taken up to be praised with some controversial…

Sutton, Jonathan Wayne.   Dissertation Abstracts International 40 (1979): 2052A.
The stories in LGW represent a first attempt by Chaucer in a series of framed stories to deal with the relation between experience, authority, and ideal sentiment. Comparison with their Ovidian sources and close reading reveals that even though…

Gray, Douglas.   Mary Salu and Robert T. Farrell, eds. J. R. R. Tolkien: Essays in Memoriam (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1979), pp. 173-203
"Pite" and its synonym "routhe" occur almost always in their original erotic context in Chaucer's earlier works: Pity, TC, PF, and FranT. It may be equated with "generous self-sacrifice" on the part of the lover. As Chaucer broadens the concept,…

Kaske, R. E.   Edward Vasta and Zacharias P. Thundy, ed. Chaucerian Problems and Perspectives: Essays Presented to Paul E. Beichner, C. S. C. (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1979), pp. 114-18.
"Clericus Adam," a short anti-feminist poem from the twelfth century, makes one wonder whether Chaucer may not be playfully saying, "Look here, 'Clericus Adam', you little bungler, don't you disfigure my handiwork the way your namesake disfigured…

Nolan, Charles J.,Jr.   Chaucer Review 13 (1979): 363-72.
Pity blends the language and structure of amorous and legal complaints. Legal bills, like "The Bill of Complaint" in the second part of Pity, have a tripartite structure: address, statement of grievance, and prayer for remedy. Recognition of this…

Pace, George B.   Manuscripta 23 (1979): 88-98.
A device available to Chaucer, but no longer possible in the modern printed book, the illuminated initial, emphasizes the religious nature of the poem, an alphabetical sequence of eight-line stanza prayers to the Virgin. Fourteen of the seventeen…

Robbins, Rossell Hope.   Beryl Rowland, ed. Companion to Chaucer Studies (New York: Oxford University Press, 1979), pp. 380-402.
Chaucer's lyrics, usually written in imitation of the current French forms of ballades and rondels, were, in fact, his most influential legacy to the fifteenth-century Chaucerians. Chaucer may have written his early poetry (now lost or unattributed)…

Vasta, Edward.   Edward Vasta and Zacharias P. Thundy, ed. Chaucerian Problems and Perspectives: Essays Presented to Paul E. Beichner, C. S. C. (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1979), pp. 97-113.
The speaker of Ros appears to be the earliest instance of the "persona" whom Chaucer presents in full dress in BD and develops in all subsequent major works. This early conception is already so complex and original as to justify the scribe's…

Fischer, Olga.   Neophilologus 63 (1979): 622-39.
Comparison of the philosophical items translated by Alfred and Chaucer from the Latin "Boethius" shows that it can in no way be maintained that all the new loan words used after the Norman Conquest were needed to fill linguistic or cultural gaps in…

Pace, George B.,and Linda E. Voigts.   Studies in the Age of Chaucer 1 (1979): 143-50.
The University of Missouri-Columbia fragment ("Fragmenta Manuscripta" 150) of Chaucer's Bo is not in book form. This fragment is one of the few Chaucer manuscripts in North America, and the only one representing Bo.

Salu, Mary, and Robert T. Farrell, eds.   Ithaca, N.Y., and London: Cornell University Press, 1979.
Includes Tolkien's obituary from the London "Times" (3 Sept. 1973), his "Valedictory Address" at Oxford (3 June 1959), a handlist of his writings, and fourteen essays by various authors about Tolkien, Old and Middle English literature, and Tolkien's…

Bazaire, Joyce,and David Mills.   Year's Work in English Studies 58 (1979): 107-23.
A discursive review of Chaucerian scholarship and research published in 1977.

Sanchez Escribano, F. Javier.   Cuadernos de Investigacion Filologica 5 (1979): 129-44.
Summarizes the literary and social position of women in Chaucer's time and discusses the various marital relationships in CT.

Gilbert, A. J.   A. J. Gilbert, Literary Language from Chaucer to Johnson (London and Basingstoke: Macmillan; New York: Barnes & Noble), 1979, pp. 29-62.
Close reading of KnT, focusing on elements such as syntax, diction, and imagery, shows Chaucer's dexterous use of high, middle, and low styles. The variety and combination of elements produce the tone of the poem and "naturalize" its philosophical…

Howard, Donald R.   Journal of the American Academy of Religion 47.2, Supplement : 307-28, 1979.
Howard compares TC with Il Filostrato and CT with Decameron, focusing on how Chaucer adapts Boccaccio's uses of conventions to engage his audience. In Boccaccio, fiction enables the audience to escape from a contemptible world, whereas Chaucer--more…

Baron, F. Xavier.   Journal of Psychohistory 7.1 (1979): 77-103.
Because Chaucer's "children's tales" deal with "extreme violence which the children suffer as innocent victims," these narratives "tend toward despair." Yet, they provoke compassion and thereby suggest that compassion is the proper response to…

Benson, C. David   Philological Quarterly 58 (1979): 16-25.
The letter read by Helen and Deiphobus is an example of "special foreshadowing"; it pertains to King Thoas of Greece (derived by Chaucer from Guido delle Colonne), who later (4.138) will be part of the prisoner exchange that sends Criseyde to the…

Daiches, David, and John Flower.   New York: Paddington Press, 1979.
Explains topographical references in the works of various British writers, from Chaucer to Robert Louis Stevenson and James Joyce, and explores how various locales contributed to various works of literature, including works by Shakespeare, Dr.…

Hobsbaum, Philip.   Philip Hobsbaum. Tradition and Experiment in English Poetry (Totowa, NJ: Rowman and Littlefield; London: Macmillan, 1979), pp. 30-67.
Identifies a number of ways in which Chaucer is innovative in various works--metrical variety, interplay of tones, indebtedness to Continental sources and "ingenuity," combination of narrative attachment and detachment--and surveys the range of…
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