Knowing Boethian philosophy (as Chaucer intended his audience to do) enables the reader of TC to gain a double perspective, both inside and outside the temporal limits of the text. This position is analogous to God's position and allows one to…
Grady, Frank.
Yearbook of Langland Studies 32 (2018): 271-87.
Identifies various ways Boethius's "Consolation of Philosophy" influenced Langland's "Piers Plowman" formally and thematically, and suggests in conclusion that, unlike other late medieval English writers, Langland and Chaucer "are interested in…
Grady, Frank.
Helen M. Hickey, Anne McKendry, and Melissa Raine, eds. Contemporary Chaucer across the Centuries (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2018), pp. 109-24.
Identifies associations between hunting and Fortune in various Middle English romances, exploring the "shared formal and thematic ambitions" of BD and "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" as "two members of this hunting-and-Fortune group." Shows how the…
Grady, Frank.
Frank Grady, ed. The Cambridge Companion to "The Canterbury Tales" (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), pp. 205-17.
Discusses the "narrowness" of modern views of Chaucer and CT, and argues that this posture hides the range of Chaucer's verse, which includes not only beast fables and fabliaux, but also saints' lives and penitential discourse.
Grady, Franks, ed.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020.
Includes nineteen contributions that analyze critical histories and reappraisals of specific tales and their contexts. For individual essays, search for Cambridge Companion to the Canterbury Tales under Alternative Title.
Graham, Jorie, ed.
Hopewell, N. J.: Ecco Press, 1996.
An eclectic anthology of poetry in English that includes (pp. 6-9) a selection from NPT (7.3331-446) in rhymed pentameter couplets, lightly modernized and including stresses for meter.
Graham, Paul Trees.
Ph.D. Dissertation, University fio Missouri atn Colimbia, 1979. Dissertation Abstracts International 40 (1980). Fully accessible via https://mospace.umsystem.edu/items/0fa7a2a8-75b5-4f6a-ba12-245f194f3626 (accessed April 12, 2026)
The categorical proposition, or sentence, is offered as a global model for narrative structure. The sentence structure, which makes meaning by suggesting the significant similarities between what might have been and what is actually said, takes the…
Grahame, Lucia, and Bob Taylor.
Wheeling, Ill.: Film Ideas, 2008.
Includes biographies of Homer, John Milton, Omar Khayyám, and Chaucer. The latter (approximately seven minutes) comments on Chaucer's life and works, accompanied by visual materials.
Gransden, K. W.
David West and Tony Woodman, eds. Creative Imitation and Latin Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979), pp. 157-71.
The "aubade" of Troilus shows its indebtedness to Ovid's "Amores" (I, 13) in both references and tone, but the effect is transformed by the poet's playing off of medieval complaint and Ovidian satire. Donne makes a similar combination but transforms…
Grant, Colin J.
Journal of English Linguistics 42 (2014): 359-79.
Fulk extols two collaborative editions of Chaucer for their excellent textual editing: The Variorum Chaucer by Ruggiers and Ransom, and Benson's Riverside Chaucer; additionally, praises Peter Robinson's digital Canterbury Tales Project. Warns…
Grant, Peter.
Thomas M. Kitts and Nick Baxter-Moore, eds. The Routledge Companion to Popular Music and Humor (New York: Routledge, 2019), pp. 49-57.
Traces a tradition of nonsense and humor in English psychedelic rock music, mentioning Chaucer's influence (specifically NPT as a mock epic) and a few allusions to Chaucer in the lyrics of psychedelic songs.
A New Historicist assessment of Middle English mirrors for princes: Chaucer's Mel and works by Trevisa, Hoccleve, Lydgate and Burgh, Hays, Ashby, and Gower. These texts construct an ideal king and normative social values and-set against the reign and…
Grassnick, Ulrike.
Simon Rosenberg and Sandra Simon, eds. Material Moments in Book Cultures: Essays in Honour of Gabriele Muller- Oberhauser (New York: Peter Lang, 2014), pp. 3–15.
Argues that as a mirror for princes Mel offers an "implicit critical view of Richard II," especially when read in the context of CT, which elsewhere provides a "complex analysis of advisers, advice, and the handling of counsel." Comments on the…
Graver, Bruce E., ed.
Ithaca, N.Y., and London: Cornell University Press, 1998.
Scholarly edition of Wordsworth's modernization of selections from Chaucer (PrT, ManT and part of ManP, a portion of TC, and the apocryphal "Cuckoo and the Nightingale") and portions of Virgil's "Aeneid" and "Georgics," including full apparatus and…
Graver, Bruce.
Wordsworth Circle 52 (2020): 92-103.
Argues that Wordsworth chose to publish his translation of PrT "for a very simple reason: he wanted to give an example of close translation of Chaucer, and it was the only one ready and unobjectionable." However, various critics found the translation…
Graves, Robert.
New York: Academy of American Poets, 1965.
Item not seen. WorldCat records indicate that this lecture was recorded on February 18, 1965, and includes comments on "flaws" in Chaucer's poems, as well as ones by Milton, Longfellow, Keats, Poe, and more.
Gravlee, Cynthia A.
James J. Paxson and Cynthia A. Gravlee, eds. Desiring Discourse: The Literature of Love, Ovid Through Chaucer (Selinsgrove, Penn.: Susquehanna University Press; London: Associated University Presses, 1998), pp. 177-87.
Argues that the "horizon of expectations" (a concept derived from Hans Jauss) of FranT is never fulfilled by the narrative. Although the Franklin strives to meet social and generic expectations, he leaves his Tale open-ended--Chaucer's means of…
Gravlee, Cynthia Acosta.
Dissertation Abstracts International 49 (1988): 826A.
Following consideration of the duality of women's nature in Old English poetry, chapters are devoted to Criseyde, to the Prioress, and to the Wife of Bath to illuminate their submerged qualities.
Gray, Douglas, and E. G. Stanley, eds.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983.
A collection of essays on Chaucer; the career of Davis; "Piers Plowman;" a poem to William Waynflete, Bishop of Winchester;the printing of medieval texts; Jocelin of Brakelond; ME linguistics; and clocks and dials. For six essays that pertain to…
Gray, Douglas, ed.
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2003.
A single-volume encyclopedia with more than 2,000 entries, composed by a team of thirteen contributors and the editor. Alphabetized entries include each of Chaucer's works, important sources and analogues, character and place names, select…
