Explores the "predominant secularity" of Chaucer's "attitude" toward the liturgy in his various references to and uses of ecclesiastical calendars, legendaries (saints' lives, hagiographies, or lectionaries), sacramentals, breviaries, missals,…
Fleming, John.
Notes and Queries 212 (1967): 48-49.
Explores relations among details of the GP description of the Squire (CT 1.94-96), the "Roman de la Rose," and a passage from fragment B of the "Romaunt of the Rose," suggesting that Chaucer influenced the fragment and that the two passages derive…
Folch-Pi, Willa Babcock.
Notes and Queries 212 (1967): 10-11.
Translates a passage from Ramon Llull's thirteenth-century "De les Maravalles del Mon" (also known as "Felix" or "Livre de Meravalles") that has "marked similarities" with the account of the first deception in CYT.
Pearcy, Roy J.
Notes and Queries 212 (1967): 322-25.
Explains the use of "impossible" as a noun in SumT 3.2231, discussing the term as a label for classroom examples of logical sophistry and commenting on Chaucer's familiarity with such academic practice.
Argues that details in WBP indicate that Jankyn, the Wife of Bath's fifth husband, is alive at the time of the Canterbury pilgrimage, even though the Wife is already "seeking for a replacement for him."
Jordan, Robert M.
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1967.
Describes the "aesthetic implications" of the medieval world view, rooted in Plato's "Timaeus" and based on notions of quantity, ordered hierarchy, and analogy rather than "organic" unity. Developed by Boethius, Macrobius, and Augustine, this view…
Records various early modern reactions to Chaucer, particularly his language and style, and explores similarities between Shakespeare and Chaucer, focusing on their stylistic range, and their attitudes toward social class, education, and human…
Hinton, Norman.
Donald E. Hayden, ed. His Firm Estate: Essays in Honor of Franklin James Eikenberry (Tulsa Okla.: University of Tulsa, 1967), pp. 72-78.
Argues that the Plague, or Black Death, "stands behind" BD, helping to "give it a shape and a meaning," describing late-medieval attitudes toward death and fortune as described in commentaries on plague.
Muscatine, Charles.
Urban T. Holmes, ed. Romance Studies in Memory of Edward Billings Ham (Hayward: [California State College], 1967), pp. 109-14.
Argues that Gautier Le Leu's "La Veuve" is a source--perhaps an oral source--of the WBP as a dramatic monologue; considers garrulousness, imagery, details of character and background, and marital violence
Casieri, Sabino.
Studi e Ricerche di Letteratura Inglese e Americana 1 (1967): 7-19.
Considers the theme of common profit in PF and Chaucer's treatment of source material, drawing examples from his uses of Dante and Boccaccio to evince that Chaucer is never an "arido tradittore" (dry translator) but an original poet.
Elbow, Peter.
Damon, Phillip, foreward. Literary Criticism and Historical Understanding: Selected Papers from the English Institute (New York: Columbia University Press, 1967), pp. 85-107.
Examines Troilus's two speeches on the "problem of free will and determinism" in TC (4.958-1082 and 3.813-40), observing complex irony whereby readers are led to agree with a perspective, then disagree, and then agree again. Chaucer "affirms both…
Hieatt, Constance B.
The Hague: Mouton & Co., 1967.
Explores the nature and function of dream vision in late-medieval English literature, focusing on BD, HF, PF, LGWP, "Pearl" and "Piers Plowman," and commenting on other works. Considers this poetry in light of post-Freudian psychology as well as…
Miner, Earl.
Howard Anderson, ed. Studies in Criticism and Aesthetics: Essays in Honor of Samuel Holt Monk (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1967), pp. 58-72.
Assesses "Dryden's conception of Chaucer," his poems, and the "purpose guiding" the changes he made while modernizing WBT, KnT, NPT, and the apocryphal "Flower and the Leaf." Also discusses Dryden's "Character of the Good Parson" and "Hind and the…
Nichols, Stephen G., Jr., ed.
New York: Appleton-Century-Croft, 1967.
An edition of Guillaume de Lorris's portion of "Le Roman de la Rose," with glosses and an Introduction (pp.1-12) in modern French. Includes as an Appendix fragment A (lines 1-1705) of Rom, with glosses and an Introduction (pp.149-51) in modern…
Russell, John, and Ashley Brown, eds.
New York: World Publishing, 1967.
Anthologizes samples of satire from classical to modern literature, arranged by genre (Prose and Drama, Verse, Epigrams), including modernizations (by Nevill Coghill) of FrPT and SumP under Verse. The Foreward (pp. xv-xxxiv) describes the…
Haselwood, Dave, trans.
San Francisco: Grabborn-Hoyem, 1967.
An art-book version of ABC, limited to 1000 copies, with facing-page Middle English text taken from the Kelmscott Chaucer and verse translation into Modern English by Dave Haselwood. The font of the Middle English text derives from "lettre batarde"…
Pei, Mario.
Philadelphia and New York: J. B. Lippencott, 1967.
A revised version of the 1952 publication, with largely revamped discussions of the "Geography of English" and "The American Language," with the latter standing alone in a new section. This revised edition expands the list of works consulted, the…
Trimble, Lester, composer.
New York: C. F. Perkins, 1967.
Four-part musical score for selections (in Middle English) from GP, 1-42, the GP descriptions of the Knight and the Squire, and WBP 3.1-34. The introductory materials include comments on expression, tone, and pronunciation, with Trimble's remark that…
Describes the lives and works of Robert Henryson and William Dunbar, with recurrent attention to their borrowings from Chaucer and their similarities to and differences from the earlier poet. Includes a select bibliography (pp. 45-48).
Bettridge, William Edwin.
Dissertation Abstracts International 27.09 (1967): 3005A.
Studies fourteenth- and fifteenth-century versions of the Griselda story, including ClT, arguing that it does not derive from the Cupid and Psyche myth and that several versions thought to be analogues are not in fact so.
Burger, Douglas A.
Dissertation Abstracts International 28.02 (1967): 619A.
Studies Chaucer's narrative personae in BD and PF, identifying several traits that become "regular marks" of his later self-characterizations: a bookish reteller who interjects personal comments, "comic self-depreciation," and ambiguous "fascination"…
Chamberlain, David Stanley.
Dissertation Abstracts International 27.11 (1967): 3834A.
Explores the impact and significance of music in Chaucer's works in light of three traditions: philosophic, Scriptural, and poetic, concluding that "Chaucer's music is far more meaningful and amusing than critics have thought," and the "major…
Crampton, Georgia Ronan.
Dissertation Abstracts International 28.06 (1967): 2205A.
Traces the topos of the sufferer as protagonist in classical, Christian, and late Latin sources and explores it "as an element" in KnT, TC, and Edmund Spenser's "Faerie Queene," arguing that Chaucer tends to emphasize "the value of acceptant…
