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Jones, Natalie, and Ben Parsons.   Year's Work in English Studies 95 (2016): 309-32.
A discursive bibliography of Chaucer studies for 2014, divided into five subcategories: general, CT, TC, other works, and reputation and reception

Grose, M. W.   London: Evans Brothers, 1967.
Introduces to a non-scholarly audience Chaucer's life and works, cast against a background of social, scientific, and intellectual history, with frequent comparisons and contrasts with the modern world. Includes sections on Chaucer's Life, his…

Baugh, Albert C.   New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1968.
Lists bibliographical citations of Chaucer studies, with sections on reference works, biography, social and cultural environments, editions and modernizations, language and versification, sources, individual works, apocrypha, etc., but excluding…

Fein, Susanna, and David Raybin, eds.   University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2016.
Includes twelve essays, an index, ninety-seven b&w and color illustrations, and an introduction by the editors, who argue for a fuller critical reckoning with the "multimodal aesthetic practices of late medieval visual art and literature" aided by…

Dauby, Helene.   Cahiers de l'Abbaye de Saint-Arnoult, vol. 2 (Paris: Editions Andre Silvaire, 1987), pp. 99-110.
Compares Helinand's "Vers de la mort" with Chaucer's work and concludes that Chaucer is far more optimistic; he is a poet of life rather than death.

Varnam, Laura.   Michael O'Neill, ed. The Cambridge History of English Poetry (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010), pp. 81-95.
Varnam describes Chaucer's "legacy to English poetry as one of linguistic curiosity and a refusal of generic categorization." With TC, Chaucer "heralded a new era of narrative poetry" rich with philosophy and characterization; in CT, he "created a…

Ingham, Patricia.   London: The British Council.
Item not seen.

Spearing, A. C., ed.   London: Edward Arnold, 1976.
An introduction to TC that considers the demands it places on readers to resolve tensions posed by the work: the genre of romance opposed by conversational and material realism and by philosophical depth; the varying attitudes its poses toward the…

Bloom, Harold.   Harold Bloom. The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages (New York, San Diego, and London: Harcourt, 1994), pp. 105-26.
Appreciative criticism of Chaucer and his contribution to Western literary tradition, especially his anticipation of Shakespeare as a comic ironist and creator of self-conscious characters. Focuses on CT--in particular, the Falstaffian vitality of…

Bethurum, Dorothy, ed.   Oxford: Clarendon, 1965.
Presents SqPT and the description of the Squire from the GP in Middle English (based on the Ellesmere manuscript), with bottom-of-page textual notes, end-of text notes and glossary, an Introduction (pp. vii-xxxv), and a description of Chaucer's…

Russell, G. A.   D. A. Pearsall and R. A. Waldron, eds. Medieval Literature and Civilization: Studies in Memory of G. N. Garmonsway (London: Athlone, 1969), pp. 211-27.
Considers PrPT in light of the GP description of the Prioress and ShT, arguing that the tone, style, verse form, and liturgical echoes of PrPT are appropriate to the vocation of the Prioress and create a powerful impression of strength, humility, and…

Hardwick, Paul.   Chaucer Review 33 (1998): 146-56.
If the Parson represents the Church, the Ploughman represents lay piety in brotherhood with the Church. This is how Chaucer perceives the poet's role: as a "'trewe swynkere,' working 'for Cristes sake, for every povre wight' in accordance with the…

Moseley, C. W. R. D., ed.   Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin, 1987.
A "critical study, incorporating Chaucer's text." Includes F. N. Robinson's text (1957) of PardPT and of GP description of Pardoner, with facing-page notes and end-of-text glossary. The introduction describes Chaucer's life and various literary,…

Rylands, George, dir.   London: Argo, 1966. (RG 466)
A reading of NPT in Middle English by John Burrow, Nevill Coghill, Lena Davis, and Norman Davis, recorded in association with The British Council. The insert comprises the text, with notes and glosses.

Coote, Stephen, ed.   New York: Penguin, 1985.
Middle English text of NPPT (with the Croesus account from MkT), accompanied by facing-page notes, a glossary (pp. 147-52), and an introduction (pp. 7-94) that surveys Chaucer's life and works; the sources of NPT; the characterization of the Nun's…

Brewer, Derek, and A. C. Spearing, readers.   London: Cambridge University Press, 1976.
Item not seen; cited in WorldCat.

Salter, Elizabeth   London; Arnold; New York: Barnes & Noble, 1962.
Discursive, analytic commentaries on KnT and ClT, treating source relations, styles, themes, rhetorical patternings, and aesthetic success in Chaucer's "full realisation of the human predicament" in both tales. The discussion of KnT emphasizes the…

Moseley, C.W.R.D., ed.   Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin, 1987.
Presents the Manly and Rickert text (1940) of KnT, with facing-page notes and end-of-text glossary and glossary of rhetorical terms. The Introduction (pp. 11-69) includes commentary on Chaucer's life, various techniques and themes of KnT, and the…

Havely, Nicholas R., dir.   [Provo, Ut.]: Chaucer Studio, 2002.
Complete Middle English audio recording of HF, read by Ros Allen, Tom Burton, Nicholas Havely, Derek Pearsall, Felicity Riddy, and Paul Thomas. Includes three interpolated songs.

Havely, Nicholas R., ed.   Durham: Durham Medieval Texts, Department of English; Provo, Ut.: Chaucer Studio, 1994.
An edition of HF based on a collation of all five witnesses (three menuscripts plus editions of Caxton and Thynne), with a substantial, though incomplete, set of variants.

Hobday, J[ohn], trans.   Bath, U.K.: Brodie, 1961
Item not seen. WorldCat record notes that FranT is "Rendered into modern English prose by John Hobday."

Traversi, Derek.   Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1987.
Traversi discusses the English language and medieval poetics--Chaucer's givens--and proceeds to trace Chaucer's development as a poet through BD, HF, PF, and TC. Because the language was an imperfect instrument, Chaucer's early poems are tentative.

Brewer, Derek, ed.   London: Rouledge & Kegan Paul, 1978.
Selection of critical writings from fourteenth century through 1933. Vol. 1 (1385-1837) contains remarks about Chaucer by Deschamps, Usk, Lydgate, Caxton, Dryden, Hazlitt, Blake, Crabbe, and Coleridge; vol. 2 (1837-1933) contains hitherto neglected…

Pittock, Malcolm.   Criticism 1 (1959): 160-68.
Describes several "difficulties" in the close reading of medieval poetry, and then examines complex "interplay between the real and apparent plots" of "Pity," reading the addressee as both a Lady and as an abstract emption, and tracing shifting…

Anderson, J. J., ed.   London: Macmillan, 1974.
Collects examples of criticism of CT in two sections: 1) five "Early Appreciations" (Caxton, Dryden, Blake, Hazlitt, and Arnold), and 2) eleven selections from twentieth-century criticism (1912 to 1957), the latter focusing on the themes and…
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