Kirby, Thomas A.
Beryl Rowland, ed. Companion to Chaucer Studies (New York: Oxford University Press, 1979), pp. 243-70.
GP not only is a brilliant poem in itself but also sets the tone for the entire work to follow. It skillfully blends the real with the ideal world--all seen through the device of a narrative persona. Chaucer uses several devices for description,…
Kirby, Thomas A.
Beryl Rowland, ed. Chaucer and Middle English Studies in honour of Rossell Hope Robbins (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1974), pp. 381-83.
Summarizes the plot of a modern analogue to RvT, David Madden's story called "Night Shift," published in "Playboy" magazine in 1971.
Kirby, Thomas A.
Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 73 (1972): 127-33.
Gauges Matthew Arnold's familiarity with Chaucer's works, judging it to be "thin" and "not extensive until the last eight years of his life," and suggesting that Arnold might not have misjudged Chaucer's "high seriousness" if had he read more of him.