Mitchell, Jerome, and William Provost, eds.
Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1973.
Includes an Introduction, four essays, a Panel Discussion, and an Afterword, with a subject index. For individual entries, search for Chaucer the Love Poet under Alternative Title.
Gorlach, Manfred.
Notes and Queries 218 (1973): 263-65.
Confronts the scribal and editorial difficulties of the variants "armee"/"arryue" in GP 1.60, preferring the latter because of parallel usage in a fifteenth-century manuscript of the "Gilte Legende."
An anthology of supernatural fiction with selections from the classical period to the modern; includes (pp. 132-33) a modernized selection from NPT (7.3000-49) as an example of a ghost story.
Faulkner, Dewey R., ed.
Englewood Cliffs, N. J.: Prentice-Hall, 1973.
An anthology of thirteen new and previously printed essays and excerpts pertaining to PardPT, with a critical introduction, a brief chronology, and a selected bibliography. The Introduction (pp. 1-14) focuses on characterization, the place of PardPT…
Robbins, Rossell Hope.
Albert E. Hartung, gen. ed. A Manual of the Writings in Middle English, 1050-1500, Volume 4, Part 11 (Hamden Conn.: Shoe String Press, 1973), pp. 1285-1306.
A bibliography of the resources that pertain to the study of Chaucerian apocrypha (background studies, manuscripts and editions, and critical essays), arranged by the titles of the works.
Frank, Robert Worth, Jr.
Stanley Weintraub and Philip Young, eds. Directions in Literary Criticism: Contemporary Approaches to Literature (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1973), pp. 53-69.
Reads RvP as a "confession of old age" and RvT as a "tribute" to unrestrained passion and an extension of the concern with love in KnT and MilT. Compares RvT with its analogues, and comments on its characterizations, the straightforwardness of its…
Gruber, Loren C.
William C. Johnson and Loren C. Gruber, eds. "New" Views on Chaucer: Essays in Generative Criticism (Denver: Society for New Language Study, 1973), pp. 43-50.
Argues that ManT contributes to the theme of the linguistic slipperiness in CT, depicting how language fails to reflect reliably the "actual nature of the world."
Tripp, Raymond P., Jr.
William C. Johnson and Loren C. Gruber, eds. "New" Views on Chaucer: Essays in Generative Criticism (Denver: Society for New Language Study, 1973), pp. 35-41.
Argues that FranT depicts a "non-solution" to the "marriage debate"; although they seek to escape them in various ways, the characters are not free from the "tyrannies of love" and sexuality that are part of the human condition.
Loganbill, Dean
William C. Johnson and Loren C. Gruber, eds. "New" Views on Chaucer: Essays in Generative Criticism (Denver: Society for New Language Study, 1973), pp. 29-34.
Locates examples of modernism and the "absurdist point of view" in ClT and MLT, suggesting points of comparison with Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot."
Johnson, W[illiam]. C., Jr.
William C. Johnson and Loren C. Gruber, eds. "New" Views on Chaucer: Essays in Generative Criticism (Denver: Society for New Language Study, 1973), pp. 17-27.
Exemplifies how Chaucer "frequently presents his characters as victims of a necessity that become meaningful not through its external operation as 'fortune,' but through its inner presence as an experience of 'emotional necessity'," illustrating this…
Fichte, Joerg O.
William C. Johnson and Loren C. Gruber, eds. "New" Views on Chaucer: Essays in Generative Criticism (Denver: Society for New Language Study, 1973), pp. 9-16.
Argues that ClT demonstrates that "gentilesse" is "inoperable in a capricious and volatile" society, evident in Griselda's treatment by Walter and his people. An ideal virtue, "gentilesse" is impossible, even for Griselda, who lacks pity.
Blake, N. F.
William C. Johnson and Loren C. Gruber, eds. "New" Views on Chaucer: Essays in Generative Criticism (Denver: Society for New Language Study, 1973), pp. 1-7.
Argues that in late medieval English poetry (including Chaucer's) tone is "more likely to be found in the disposition" of rhetorical units larger than individual words and phrases. Draws illustrative examples from CT, TC, and "Sir Gawain and the…
Collects examples of criticism of CT in two sections: 1) five "Early Appreciations" (Caxton, Dryden, Blake, Hazlitt, and Arnold), and 2) eleven selections from twentieth-century criticism (1912 to 1957), the latter focusing on the themes and…
Diekstra, F. N. M.
Nijmegen: Dekker & Van de Vegt, 1974.
Comments on disparities between the narratives and the morals applied to them in SumT, ManT, FranT, ClT, and MLT, exploring the Chaucer's incongruities and indirections. There are no "monolithic" morals to be found in BD, HF, or PF, which tend toward…
Brockman, Bennett A.
Children's Literature 2 (1973): 40-49.
Discusses the "sentimental reverence for the child's innocence" in a variety of medieval texts, including the account of Hugolino in MkT, compared with the version in Dante's "Inferno" 33, In both versions, the children have "precocious knowledge"…
Defines "exemplum" and describes the history of the genre before Chaucer; then focuses on Chaucer's innovative uses of the device to produce comedy in MilT, SqT, and SumT, also commenting at length on exempla clusters in HF and FranT.
Compares several of Chaucer's works (ABC, Bukton, and sections from LGW, TC, and CT) with their sources and analogues to clarify Chaucer's dependence upon the English literary tradition.
