Hira, Toshinori.
Bulletin of the Faculty of Liberal Arts, Nagasaki University, Humanities 13 (1972): 53-66.
Surveys Chaucer's uses of courtly notions in his poetry, focusing on courtesy, service, connections with feudalism and Christianity, and the lady's grace and mercy; also comments on the negative qualities of somnolence and gluttony. Draws examples…
Wawn, Andrew N.
English Language Notes 10 (1972): 15-20.
Describes the extract/summary of the "Plowman's Tale" in Henry Vaughn's "The Golden Fleece" (1626, under the pseudonym "Orpheus Junior") and explores his claim that Chaucer influenced Wycliff through this spurious tale.
Surveys the roots of analogical thinking and late-medieval critiques of its methods and assumptions, exploring the background to understanding "Chaucer's curious neglect of the allegorical mode." As with nominalists, Chaucer is consistently concerned…
Bawcutt, Priscilla.
Yearbook of English Studies 2 (1972): 5-12.
Discusses various topoi of the lark (including its etymology in Latin) to explore and explain details in a variety of medieval and Renaissance poems, including KnT where the lark is "bisy" and a welcomer of dawn (1.1491-92).
Culver, T. D.
Yearbook of English Studies 2 (1972): 13-20.
Traces the artistic development of the Constance story from its roots in the accused queen legend through Trevet's adaptation, Gower's version, and MLT, arguing that only in Chaucer does the narrative achieve "comprehensive artistic unity" of…
Wawn, Andrew N.
Yearbook of English Studies 2 (1972): 21-40.
Revises and adds to Henry Bradshaw's discussion of the origins of the "Plowman's Tale," examining chronological and regional features of vocabulary, allusions to contemporary fashion and events, and Lollard ideology to argue that the poem was written…
Wilson, G. R., Jr.
Texas Studies in Literature and Language14 (1972): 381-88.
Charts the development of the dreamer in BD from concern with abstract grief to concern with real grief and from selfishness to concern for others; this progress effects "a detailed anatomy of compassion" that encourages compassion in Chaucer's…
Wood, Chauncey.
Texas Studies in Literature and Language14 (1972): 389-403.
Examines the characterization of Chaucer's pilgrim-narrator in CT, focusing on the scene in ThP where the Host requests a tale from this narrator and exploring the ironies of the Host's expectations, the readers' knowledge of earlier Chaucerian…
Argues that the characterizations in Willa Cather's "Death Comes for the Archbishop" were influenced by Chaucer's GP descriptions, particularly those of his ecclesiastical characters. The two authors also share a tendency to avoid rigid schemata of…
Samuels, M. L.
Notes and Queries 217 (1972): 445-48.
Argues that pronounced Chaucerian final -'e' is generally conservative and grammatical (rather than rhetorical or colloquial), identifying parallels in Old English usage and Middle English scribal practice, and commenting on the loss of final -'e'…
Poteet, Daniel P., II.
Notes and Queries 217 (1972): 89-90.
Connects John's separation from Alison in the tubs of the MilT with enjoinders to remain sexually separate in the Noah mystery plays and Mirk's "Festial."
Hume, Kathryn.
Studia Neophilologica 44 (1972): 289-94.
Argues that Dorigen's lament is "not necessarily Christian," derived as it is from Boethius's "Consolation of Philosophy" and "spiced with reminiscences" of Ovid's "Metamorphoses." Reads the lament as "completely consonant with what Chaucer regarded…
