DeVries, David N.
Nancy M. Reale and Ruth E. Sternglantz, eds. Satura: Studies in Medieval Literature in Honour of Robert R. Raymo (Donington: Shaun Tyas, 2001), 248-62.
Assesses the intertextual relationship of Lydgate's "A Balade in Commendation of Our Lady" with TC and with Alan de Lille's "Anticlaudianus," exploring how aureate diction contributes to the poem's "connection between poetry and redemption in…
Bauer, Kate [A.]
Nancy M. Reale and Ruth E. Sternglantz, eds. Satura: Studies in Medieval Literature in Honour of Robert R. Raymo (Donington: Shaun Tyas, 2001), pp. 205-26.
Explores the figure of the "puer senex" (wise youth) in "Pearl," Gower's "Confessio Amantis" ("Tale of Apollonius"), courtesy books, and PrT. Chaucer carefully presents an "ordinary world" in which the clergeon of PrT is educated through realistic…
Bishop, Kathleen [A.]
Nancy M. Reale and Ruth E. Sternglantz, eds. Satura: Studies in Medieval Literature in Honour of Robert R. Raymo (Donington: Shaun Tyas, 2001), pp. 227-37.
Identifies a number of points of comparison between Juan Ruiz's "El Libro" and CT: wide range of genres, ecclesiastical satire, comparable characters (e.g., the Prioress and Doña Garoa; the Wife of Bath and Trotaconventos), narrators'…
Syme, Alison.
Nancy Rose Marshall, ed. Victorian Science and Imagery: Representation in Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021), pp. 56-78.
Focuses on Edward Burne-Jones's illustration of HF in the Kelmscott Chaucer (1896) to show "that Burne-Jones was attuned to the scientific discourse of his time," arguing that the book "provided the context and impetus to visualize, in distilled…
Koff, Leonard Michael.
Nancy van Deusen, ed. Cicero Refused to Die: Ciceronian Influence through the Centuries (Boston: Brill, 2013) , pp. 65-83.
Explores how Chaucer's adaptations in PF of Macrobius's Neoplatonic commentary on Cicero's "Dream of Scipio" anticipate "the humanist recovery of Ciceronian ideals," particularly the "ideal of marriage and mating as civic duty" and the "possibility…
Shonk, Timothy A.
Nancy van Deusen, ed. Cicero Refused to Die: Ciceronian Influence through the Centuries (Boston: Brill, 2013), pp. 85-121.
Argues that Cicero's "Somnium Scipionis" "had a much greater impact" on BD, PF, and especially HF than is usually acknowledged, showing that Cicero's themes and imagery permeate Chaucer's works and dominate his literary imagination for "some ten…
Luo, Yue, trans.
Nanjing: Jiang su feng huang wen yi chu ban she, 2022.
Item not seen. WorldCat records indicate that this is a translation of CT into Chinese; apparently adapted, suggesting that Philippa's illness is Chaucer's motive for undertaking his pilgrimage.
Williams, David.
Naples: Fla.: Sapientia Press of Ave Maria University, 2007.
Chaucer is a philosophical realist whose naïve narrators, tale-within-a-tale structuring, and focus on irony and linguistic slippage enable him to assert Truth while exposing the limitations of individual human perspectives. Williams examines the…
This appreciative biography uses "Chaucer Knight" as the title of chapter sixteen, deriving the appellation from a memorial in the "Cambridge Review" on the occasion of Lewis' death.
Allen, Judson Boyce.
Nashville, Tenn.: Vanderbilt University Press, 1971.
Describes modes of literary analysis and understanding characteristic of the late Middle Ages, derived from the work of "classicizing writers" such as Robert Holcot, John Lathbury, Thomas Ringstead, John Ridewell, John Bromyard, Thomas Waleys, and…
Edwards, Robert R.
Nashville, Tenn.: Vanderbilt University Press, 1989.
Analyzes the intricate relationship among literary theory, poetry, and music, with examples from Chaucer and others--specifically, the "strategies of poetic composition" and the "location of invention within the text"--to produce "a literary reading…
Editorial Committee, Department of English, Vanderbilt University.
Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1954.
Collects nineteen essays by various authors on topics in medieval and early modern English literature, accompanied by Harden Craig's appreciative essay, "Walter Clyde Curry and Contemporary Scholarship," and a bibliography of Curry's publications…
Sullivan, Helen.
Natalie Grimes Lawrence and Jack A. Reynolds, eds. A Chaucerian Puzzle and Other Medieval Essays (Coral Gables, FL: University of Miami Press, 1961), pp. 1-46.
Challenges the theory that ShT was originally intended to be narrated by the Wife of Bath, and suggests a major emendation: moving lines 7.5-19 (which include first-person feminine pronouns) later in the tale and having them spoken by the merchant's…
McCollum, John I. Jr.
Natalie Grimes Lawrence and Jack A. Reynolds, eds. A Chaucerian Puzzle and Other Medieval Essays (Coral Gables, FL: University of Miami Press, 1961), pp. 71-85.
Summarizes and comments on HF, with particular attention to previous scholarly opinions, unity and structural balance, whether or not the dreamer learns anything, the nature of the man of great authority, and the possibility that the poem is "a…
Atkinson, Ruth, and Geert van Iersel, trans
Nathanael Busch and Robert Fajen, eds. Allmächtig und Unfassbar: Geld in der Literatur des Mittelalters (Stuttgart: S. Hirzel, 2021), pp. 316-19.
Translates Purse into German verse, with notes; Middle English text included.
Bowers, John M.
Nathaniel B. Smith and Joseph T. Snow, eds. The Expansion and Transformation of Courtly Literature (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1980), pp. 141-55.
The visual image of Troilus on his horse, which Criseyde sees from her window, is connected to the earlier image of Troilus as a horse. The horse image, with its suggestions of lust and pride, is associated with both Troilus and Criseyde.
Huws, Daniel.
National Library of Wales Journal 25:1 (1987): 114-18.
Now renamed NLW MS 21972D, the early-fifteenth-century Merthyr Fragment, containing NPT, is described and compared to other manuscripts. The Merthyr Fragment is about 200 lines of text now visible, in whole or in part, about 20 more than previously…
Breeze, Andrew.
National Library of Wales Journal 34 (2008): 311-21.
Like Chaucer, the fourteenth-century Welsh poet Dafydd ap Gwilym borrowed from Jean de Meun, using "Le Roman de la Rose" as the source for "Y Gwynt" ('The Wind'). Breeze notes sixteen motifs common to both poems and contrasts the Welsh poet's method…
Mahameed, Mohammed, and Al-Quran Raji.
Nebula 8.1 (2011): 199-208.
Asserts that details of astrology, astronomy, and mythology in BD, TC, and CT evince Chaucer's confused and skeptical views of Christianity, commenting on passages from LGW and CT. Available at http://nobleworld.biz/images/Mohammed_Raji.pdf (last…
