Mack, Dana, and David Blankenhorn, eds.
Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 2001.
The chapter entitled "Who's the Head of the Family?" includes the modern translation of WBPT by A. Kent Hieatt and Constance Hieatt, somewhat abridged.
Roberts, James L.
Grafton, Ellen, reader.
New York: Wiley, 2000.
Study guide to CT, with backgrounds to Chaucer and the poem, along with summaries and commentaries on all of the tales, sample character analyses and short essays, and resources for review and further reading. An audiobook version of this text was…
Whitley, David.
Gabrielle Cliff Hodges, Mary Jane Drummond, and Morag Styles, eds. Tales, Tellers and Texts (New York: Cassell, 2000), pp. 68-76.
Explores how "contemporary academic criticism" has influenced twentieth-century adaptations of CT for children, commenting on versions by Eleanor Fargeon, Selina Hastings, Ian Serraillier, Geraldine McCaughrean, and Joel Myerson.
A history of international English poetry, with recurrent attention to the history of the language, verse forms and style, political contours, and the anxieties of influence. The structure is chronological until the twentieth century, when Schmidt…
Washburn, Katharine, John S. Major, and Clifton Fadiman, eds.
New York: Quality Paperback Book Club, 1998.
Includes two excerpts from Chaucer in modernized English (pp. 527-28), translated by Burton Raffel and Selden Rodman: the ballade from LGWP (F249-69) and TC (5.1786-1834).
Morgan, Gerald, ed.
New York: Holmes & Meier; London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1980.
An edition of FranPT, the description of the Franklin from the GP, and the endlink from the SqT, with notes and glosses. In his Introduction (pp. 1-47), Morgan comments on the "challenges" of reading Chaucer's poetry, the "modulation" of his poetic…
Item not seen; cited in WorldCat which indicates that this is a selection from CT in Middle English. WorldCat also cites a 1998 release of this publication.
Notes Chaucer's attention to "loss of sexual power" in the process of aging, commenting on two brief passages in modern translation: WBP (3.198-203) and RvP (1.3879-382, 3887-98).
Items not seen; reported in WorldCat, which indicates three interrelated items: 1) a cassette recording of GP and MilT (with projected images?), 2) written corrections and commentary (in German) on this recording, and 3) an introduction (in German)…
Schmidt, Gary, and Susan M. Felch, eds.
Woodstock, Ver.: Skylight Paths, 2006.
This anthology of poems, stories, essays, and excerpts that celebrate spring includes lines 1-18 of GP, in modern translation, with a brief introduction to pilgrimage and the CT.
A selection from CT in Spanish prose, including GP, KnT, MilPT, RvT, ShT, PrPT, ThPT (the tale of Thopas in stanzaic verse), MkP, NPPT, WBPT, ClPE (with Envoy in verse), MerPT, SqE, FranPT, PardPT, ParsT, and Ret. Published again in 2006, with a new…
Interlinear translation in modern English of the selections from Chaucer in the 8th edition of the "Norton Anthology of English Literature" (2006), edited by Alfred David and James Simpson. Includes GP, MilPT, MLE, WBPT, PardPT, NPT, ParsP, Ret,…
Lombardi, Chiara.
Rome: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2005.
Analysis of the versions of the Troy story by Boccaccio, Chaucer, and Shakespeare, with attention to earlier versions and to the impact of the story and its main characters on western culture. Gauges the importance of ancient stories in shaping…
