Edits a selection of Robert Henryson's poetry, with appended critical notes and glosses, an Introduction, a Biographical and Textual Note, and a series of Appreciations by literary historians. The Introduction (pp. vii-xv) focuses on how and to what…
Matthews, William, ed.
New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts; London: Peter Owen, 1963.
Anthologizes some sixty modernized examples and excerpts from late-medieval English prose writing, arranged by topic, form, or genre (e.g., Historians, Mystics, Religious Controversialists, etc.), with a brief introduction to each section. Includes a…
Payne, Robert O.
New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press for the University of Cincinnati, 1963.
Explores how "the problems and operations of poetry and the poet are repeatedly raised into the consciousness of the reader" of Chaucer's poetry, adding a "peculiar dimension" to engaging with his works by requiring a "deliberate assent to their…
Surveys "precursors of modern novels" in English tradition between 1400 and 1600, with a "glance" at even earlier stories which "reveal a kinship with the future narrative form," discussing, among others, TC, and treating it (pp. 28-40) as an…
Beichner, Paul E.
Mediaeval Studies 25 (1963): 160-72.
Contrasts medieval and modern charitable giving, indulgence granting, and false relics, and assesses the Pardoner as a "professional collector," and "high-pressure fund raiser," reading PardPT as "an exposition" of the Pardoner's "fund-raising…
Includes a section entitled " Das Pronomen bei Chaucer" (pp. 74-86) that examines Chaucer's artistic uses of the second person pronouns of address, focusing particularly on TC and including comments on WBPT.
Clarifies the conventionality of Chaucer's references to allegorical and/or exemplary animals and their significances, offering numerous examples to show that Chaucer's allusions are "brief" and generally similar to and/or derived from "the most…
Hall, Louis Brewer.
Mediaeval Studies 25 (1963): 148-59.
Describes five medieval redactions of Virgil's "Aeneid," "widely separated geographically and chronologically," assessing how they "medievalized" the material in conventional ways, and using these "conventions" to discuss Chaucer's successful…
Bratcher, James T.
Notes and Queries 208 (1963): 210-12.
Quotes and translates an analogue to the window scene of bottom kissing in MilT, recorded by folklorist Juan B. Rael as "La mujer y los tres amantes," collected by oral transmission from Félix Pino in New Mexico in the 1930s.
Bratcher, James T.
Notes and Queries 208 (1963): 444-45.
Suggests that the "greyn" placed on the clergeon's tongue in PrT 7.662 is, ironically, a "breath sweetener," one of several satiric details observed in the Tale.
Daly, Saralyn R.
Notes and Queries 208 (1963): 442-44.
Maintains that anachronistic details of Criseyde's address to night in TC 3.1429-42 deviate from traditional albas and indicate that she "challenges God" in favor of her own will, indicated by her unorthodox attitude toward Providence.
Moran, Tatyana.
Notes and Queries 208 (1963): 11-12.
Identifies ironic parallels between Troilus's viewings of Criseyde in TC and Cresseid's failure to recognize Troilus in Robert Henryson's "Testament of Cresseid," exploring the latter as a narrative of "punishment and expiation through suffering."
Rowland, Beryl.
Notes and Queries 208 (1963): 210.
Surveys historical comments on the odor of daisies and suggests that Chaucer's praise of its odor in LGWP may be due to botanical accuracy, unusual because he usually follows literary conventions.
Grennen, Joseph E.
American Notes and Queries 1 (1963): 131-32.
Suggests that "esy of dispence" in the GP description of the Physician (1.431) means not only "slow to spend money," but also "moderate in prescribing remedies," or perhaps that he prescribes palatable medicines.
Severs, J. Burke.
Mediaeval Studies 25 (1963): 355-62.
Locates in Old French love poems sources for various aspects of BD, citing previously unnoticed parallels with passages from Guillaume de Machaut and Jean Froissart, and arguing that similar parallels and the "general situation and conduct" of…
Wood, Chauncey Derby.
Dissertation Abstracts International 25.05 (1963): 2970.
Examines the astrological passages in Chaucer's works, not only the technical details but the their mythographic and iconographic implications. Includes discussion of Astr, Mars, GP, WBP, MerT, MLT, and ParsP.
Flinn, John.
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1963.
Chapter 15, "Le Roman de Renart en Angleterre" (pp. 672-88), summarizes NPT and treats Pierre de Saint-Cloud's "Roman de Renart" (branch 2) as its major source, focusing on tone and spirit, and attributing differences to Chaucer's art, originality,…
