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Al-Hariri of Basra.
Cooperson, Michael, trans.
  New York: New York University Press, 2020.
Translates al-Harırı's Arabic classic "Maqamat," with sections imitating or emulating the styles of various writers in English (Mark Twain, Virginia Woolf, John Lyly, etc.). The "Author's Retraction" is "modeled on" Ret.

Bergvall, Caroline.   New York: Nightboat, 2019.
An extended prose-poem (with portions lineated), presented as a dialogue between "Caroline" and "Alisoun," the latter an adaptation of the Wife of Bath. Transgresses temporal, linguistic, modal, and thematic categories, and includes references to…

Hodnett, Edward, ed.   New York: Norton, 1957. Rev. ed. 1967.
Anthologizes English poems and excerpts alphabetically by author, including the Envoy to ClT (7.1178-1212), translated by Hodnett into Modern English in rhyme royal stanzas.

Eastman, Arthur, ed.   New York: Norton, 1970.
Selections from Chaucer (pp. 5-20) include NPT, Ros, Truth, Gent, Purse, WomUnc, and MercB in Middle English with notes and glosses.

Donaldson, E. Talbot.   New York: Norton, 1970.
Twelve essays by Donaldson, eight of them previously printed, with a comprehensive index. For the four newly published essays, search for Speaking of Chaucer under Alternative Title.

Pinsky, Robert, and Maggie Dietz, eds.   New York: Norton, 2000.
Anthologizes a large number of selections from responses to Robert Pinsky's request that Americans submit an example of their favorite poetry and "comment on the poem's personal significance." The volume includes GP, lines 1-18, and brief comments by…

Pinsky, Robert, and Maggie Dietz, eds.   New York: Norton, 2002.
Includes an excerpt from BD (the Black Knight's lament, lines 475-86), with Maggie Dietz's brief comments about how Middle English words "change in the mouth" (p. 128).

Benson, Larry D., trans.   New York: Norton, 2006.
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,…

Lynch, Kathryn L., ed.   New York: Norton, 2007.
Includes BD, HF, PF, LGW, Anel, ABC, Adam, MercB, Ros, Truth, Gent, Sted, Scog, Buk, and Purse, with a general preface, an introduction for each of the longer works, selected background works and critical assessments (focusing on the dream visions),…

Kelemen, Erick.   New York: Norton, 2009.
Introduces the theory and practice of editing literary works, with contextual materials to help readers understand why and how to edit various kinds of texts and produce various kinds of editions. Includes readings from various theorists and…

Fisher, Sheila, trans.   New York: Norton, 2011.
Facing-page poetic translation of GP, KnT, MilPT, RvPT, CkPT, WBPT, ClPT, MerPT, FranPT, PardPT, PrPT, Thop and prologues to Thop and Mel, NPPT, ParsP, and Ret. Follows Chaucer's verse forms. Includes biographical and cultural backgrounds (pp.…

Gilbert, Dorothy, ed.   New York: Norton, 2015.
Includes Th and a selection from MerT in the section called "Backgrounds and Context."

Lawton, David, ed., with prose texts ed. Jennifer Arch and dream poems ed. Kathryn Lynch.   New York: Norton, 2019.
A comprehensive edition of all of Chaucer's works (without Rom or Equat), with bottom-of-page notes, side-bar glosses, headnotes to the individual works and each part of CT, and a glossary. The text is based on manuscript witnesses and on E. Talbot…

Scala, Elizabeth.   New York: Norton, 2020.
Offers comprehensive introduction to CT, focusing on language, genres, forms, historical background, and critical history related to Chaucer. Provides exercises, strategies, and ideas for teaching Chaucer in undergraduate courses.

Falk, Seb.   New York: Norton, 2020.
Combines a biography of Benedictine astronomer John Westwyk with contextualizing information about medieval science, technology, education, and innovation, particularly in the monastic settings of St. Albans Abbey and its Tynemouth Priory. Credits…

Hieatt, Constance B., ed.   New York: Odyssey Press, [1970].
Edits MilT with notes and glossary, an introduction, a discussion of Chaucer's language, a brief bibliography, and a translation of the Flemish analogue to MilT, "The Three Guests of Heile of Bersele." The introduction considers the date of…

Kiley, Frederick, and J. M. Shuttleworth, eds.   New York: Odyssey, 1971.
An anthology of examples, arranged chronologically, of literary, social, and political satires; includes a prose translation (by Robert Lumiansky) of PardPT, with a brief introduction.

Wagenknecht, Edward, ed.   New York: Oxford University Press, 1959.
Reprints twenty-sex selections/excerpts from previous criticism, seventeen pertaining to CT, four on TC, two on LGW, and one each on BD, HF, and PF.

Trapp, J. B., ed.   New York: Oxford University Press, 1973
Textbook anthology of Old and Middle English literature that includes selections from Chaucer (pp. 119-283) in Middle English with glosses, notes, and introductions to Chaucer's life, works, and language. Selections include GP, MilPT, NPPT (with two…

Miller, Robert P., ed.   New York: Oxford University Press, 1977.
An anthology of selections from Voragine, Augustine, Macrobius, Hugh of St. Victor, Vainsauf, Garland, Bury, Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Cicero, Ovid, Deschamps, John of Salisbury, Ramon Lull, Saint-Amour, Boethius, Andreas Cappellanus, Walter Map,…

Rowland, Beryl, ed.   New York: Oxford University Press, 1979.
Twenty-two essays by noted Chaucerians on a range of topics: individual works, biography, backgrounds, source study, genre, etc. The essays survey fundamental critical issues and bibliography. For individual essays, search for Companion to Chaucer…

Kane, George.   New York: Oxford University Press, 1984.
With no notes and a brief index, the book glances at Chaucer's life, times, and work in chronological order. Exploring Chaucer's identity as poet ironically, HF concerns truth in report and poetry. As mirror for princes, PF fuses poetry and…

Stallworthy, Jon, ed.   New York: Oxford University Press, 1984.
Arranged chronologically, this anthology of 259 poems and excerpts about war ranges from the Bible and Homer to Peter Porter, including a selection from John Dryden's translation of the description of the temple of Mars in KnT.

Wright, David, trans.   New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.
A translation of all the verse of CT into modern English verse, using metrical forms imitating the original, and half rhyme or assonance; brief introduction, bibliography, life, and notes.

Cooper, Helen.   New York: Oxford University Press, 1989. 2d rev. ed., 1996. 3d rev. ed, 2023.
The Oxford Guides offer summaries of what is known about Chaucer's work and include "fresh interpretations based on recent advances in both historical knowledge and theoretical understanding." Cooper includes commentary on all aspects of CT as a…
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