Baker, Donald C.
Studies in Philology 59 (1962): 631-40.
Treats the theme of "gentilesse" in ClT as a response to its presence in WBT, arguing that it helps to characterize the Clerk, underlies Walter's decisions, and encouraged Chaucer to choose "precisely this legend for exactly this spot" in CT.…
Bennett, J. A. W.
Review of English Studies 13.51 (1962): 283.
Suggests that "gonne" rather than "goune" is the correct reading in "O mosy Quince," a lyric ascribed to Chaucer in Cambridge, Trinity College MS 3.19 (no. 49); supports the reading by identifying St. Barbara, cited in the poem, as "patron saint of…
Brooks, Harold Fletcher.
London: Methuen; New York: Barnes & Noble, 1962.
Assesses the aesthetic success of the techniques and devices used to characterize and arrange the pilgrims in GP, treating them in "five successive groups" and commenting on degrees of naturalism, pairings, significant details, and various "gamuts in…
Cawley, A. C.
Review of English Literature 3.2 (1962): 9-19.
Compares HF and Alexander Pope's adaptation of it, "Temple of Fame," focusing on their uses and meanings of the word "fame." Surveys Chaucer's uses of "fame" in his corpus, and traces the rise and fall of its meanings in HF, from rumor to renown and…
Clogan, Paul Maurice
Dissertation Abstracts International 22.10 (1962): 3641.
Studies the "form in which Chaucer may have known Statius' poetry," focusing on "medieval glossed manuscripts" in order to identify correspondences between the poetry of Statius, commentaries on it, and Chaucer's works. Assesses the status of Statius…
Assesses the "aesthetic status" of RvT, gauging its "crude vulgarity" in relation to its "moral coherence" where social/sexual pretentions are punished commensurately. Argues that Malyne is "notably pathetic," that the parson is the "evil genius of…
Traces the development of Troilus' character in TC, arguing that he grows from ignorance to wisdom in confronting the "fundamental mystery of the human condition": his noble, "tragic error . . . is to have tried to love a human being with an ideal…
Dunning, T. P.
Norman Davis and C. L. Wrenn, eds. English and Medieval Studies Presented to J. R. R. Tolkien on the Occasion of his Seventieth Birthday (New York: Humanities; London: Allen and Unwin, 1962), pp. 164-82.
Traces references to Christian, pagan, courtly, and Boethian love throughout TC, aligning them references to fate, Providence, and Fortune, and arguing that they lead in progressive fashion to the realization that Troilus's constancy mirrors divine…
Evanoff, Alexander.
Brigham Young University Studies 4.3-4 (1962): 209-17.
Treats the Pardoner as a "foot-in-the-door salesman" who is confident in his own skills and believes that his "frankness is disarming." The "agonized sincerity" that George Lyman Kittredge perceived in lines PardT 6.916-18 is not "agonized" but…
Identifies three aspects of NPT that differ from those found in its analogues ("Roman du Renart" and "Reinhart Fuch"), arguing that Chaunticleer' s belief in dreams, the frugal poverty of the widow, and the limited role of the fox produce a "shifting…
Grennen, Joseph E.
Criticism: A Quarterly for Literature and the Arts 4 (1962): 225-40.
Identifies alchemical puns and their thematic/metaphoric potential in CYPT, focusing on "multiplie," "fire," and the figure of the "cosmic furnace" in 8.1407-8. Provides conceptual and contextual backgrounds from alchemical commentaries and suggests…
Emends the punctuation of CYT 8.1236-39 found in the editions of W. W. Skeat and F. N. Robinson, assigning the enjoinder in the first half of the quotation to the Yeoman's canon and the second half to the Yeoman as narrator.
Associates Scudamour of Edmund Spenser's The Fairie Queene IV.x with "Chaucerian" mastery in love, drawing parallels with love in KnT and contrasts with love in FranT, the latter quoted by Spenser in III.i.25, 8-9.
Hyder, Clyde Kenneth.
Lawrence: University of Kansas, 1962.
Describes the life and professional career of George Lyman Kittredge, prominent critic of Chaucer, editor of Shakespeare's plays, and scholar of ballads, folklore, and more. Quotes from a number of personal and professional letters as well as…
Challenges "dramatic" criticism of CT, arguing that "realistic illusion" is not sustained but rather "undermined" in ways that call attention to aesthetic concerns, limiting the kinds of psychological projections that some critics have imposed upon…
Kaske, R. E.
Studies in Philology 59 (1962): 225-40.
Explores in MilT the comic and thematic potential of allusions to the biblical Song of Songs and its exegetical commentaries. Details of Absolon's address to Alisoun at the window, the descriptions of the two characters, and other details of the Tale…
Lehnert, Martin, trans.
Halle (Salle): Verl. Sprache und Literatur, 1962.
Item not seen. WorldCat link to table of contents indicates that the selections (in English and in German with notes) include GP (selections), MilPT, RvPT, CkPT, WBPT, FrPT, SumPT, PardPT, and ShT, with an introduction, pp. vii-xvi.
Item not seen. WorldCat records indicate that this translation of CT into Finnish is based on the 1908 modernization of Arthur Burrell, with an Introduction to the translation by Tauno Mustanoja. The illustrations by Edward Burne-Jones derive from…
Commends the force and clarity of the passage on old age in RvP (1.3887-98), particularly the images of the wine cask and the tongue, the first familiar to Chaucer as a member of a family in the wine business
Malone, Kemp.
Modern Language Review 57 (1962): 481-91.
Examines WBPT for internal contrasts, attributing them to the Wife's comic inability to see the implications of her own tale. WBT is a "tale of wonder" or "folktale" in which the rape is merely a plot device and the education of the knight…
McCall, John P.
Modern Language Quarterly 23 (1962): 297-308.
Argues that the "formal and thematic design" of TC--particularly its five-book structure--reflects the "ordered argument of Lady Philosophy" in Boethius's "Consolation of Philosophy" and "reveals a new facet of Chaucer's concept of tragedy." Altering…
