Delasanta, Rodney K.
Tennessee Studies in Literature 13 (1968): 117-32.
Reads NPT as the teller's attack on the "anti-monastic" Monk (as well as the "indifferent" Prioress), contrasting the "sacerdotal demeanor" of the two clerics and arguing that the NPT is opposed to MkT in both theme and technique, focusing on their…
Heyworth, P. L., ed.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1968.
Edits "Jack Upland" (wrongly attributed to Chaucer from the 16th century to the 18th), along with "Friar Daw's Reply" and "Upland's Rejoinder," with full critical apparatus.
Ingham, Muriel Brierley.
Dissertation Abstracts International 68.10 (1968): 4132-33A.
Identifies and analyzes the motifs and imagery of death in England in the fourteenth century to the sixteenth, including discussion of the relatively positive depictions of death in TC and CT.
Explores the combination of religion and secularity in ClT, discussing its fusion of ideals and practical realities as Chaucer's means to increase the ambivalences of his sources. The tension between the Clerk's moralization of the Tale and its…
Compares FranT with the tenth tale (Madassena and Her Rash Promise) of the "Vetalapachisi," identifying common motifs (rash promise, promise to return, and noble theft) and differences in frame, characterization, and setting. Observes relations with…
Somerville, Elizabeth S.
Dissertation Abstracts International 28.08 (1968): 3158-59A.
Illustrates how literary works "can be read existentially from the point of view of the reader's ontological concern with them," discussing James Joyce's "Clay," William Blake's "The Little Black Boy," and WBPT. Reads WBT as a "reflection of the…
Locates and assesses a prevailing irony in TC: the narrator and each of the major characters follows the "same pattern" of early knowledge of Fortune's instability, "followed by self-deception, and eventual submission to the facts." Love and truth…
Clogan, Paul M.
English Miscellany 18 (1967): 9-31.
Explores the "artistic impact" of Statius's "Thebaid" on Chaucer, particularly the influence of Statius's style and his "portrayal of the ideals of Theban antiquity," tracing Chaucer's allusions to and uses of the epic in Pity, BD, Mars, HF, Anel,…
Starkie, Martin, narrator.
Coghill, Nevill, trans.
Hamburg: Deutsche Grammophon, 1968. (139 380 A)
Includes selections from GP in translation by Nevill Coghill, set to music, and narrated by Martin Starkie: the opening of GP and the descriptions of the Knight, the "Knight's Son,", the "Nun," the "Guild," the Monk, the Wife of Bath, the Shipman,…
Kivimaa, Krista
Commentationes Humanarum Litterarum, Societas Scientarum Fennica 43.1 (1968): 1-75.
Identifies, tabulates, and analyzes the clauses introduced by conjunctions in Chaucer's works (except Th and his lyrics), with or without pleonastic "that," attending to stress (verse and prose) and meter, and concluding, generally, that Chaucer…
Mitchell, Jerome.
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1968.
Defends the artistic qualities of Thomas Hoccleve as a poet, acknowledging his medieval conventionality, but emphasizing his originality in adapting conventions and source material, the competence of his meter, and the autobiographical elements of…
Hoffman, Richard L.
R. M. Lumiansky and Herschel Baker, eds. Critical Approaches to Six Major English Works: "Beowulf" through "Paradise Lost" (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1968). pp. 41-80.
Describes scholarly accomplishments and critical trends in Chaucer studies between 1940 and 1968--editions, source-and-analogue studies, and psychological, theological, and philosophical approaches. Explores the concept of the doubleness in love (two…
Drucker, Trudy.
New York State Journal of Medicine 68 (1968): 444-47.
Describes various disorders, discomforts, and diseases among the Canterbury pilgrims and in their tales, commenting on medieval and modern understandings of symptoms and causes.
Harlow, Benjamin C
McNeese Review 19 (1968): 36-47.
Characterizes the Host as a "delightful traveling companion," summarizing details of his GP description and of his interactions with the other pilgrims in the links between the tales. He is "sometimes pompous, often impudent, and always forceful," a…
Explores differences between the narrator's depictions of the passing of time in TC. Books 1-4 record events consecutively, with little or no inference of simultaneity of action, and Book 5 shifts abruptly to an "outside-narrator time sequence"…
Adams, George R.
Literature and Psychology 18 (1968): 215-22.
Argues that the seven clerical pilgrims described in GP (Prioress, Monk, Friar, Clerk, Parson, Summoner, and Pardoner) are "partially or wholly defined by their sexual propensities," constituting a thematic pattern of "caritas" in tension with "amor"…
Tenn, William, ed.
Westlake, Donald, ed.
New York: Macmillan, 1968.
Includes a modern prose translation of PardT in an anthology of twenty-two short stories of crime fiction by authors not usually associated with the genre.
Lawlor, John.
London: Hutchinson University Library, 1968.
Treats Chaucer's major narrative poems as "oral script(s)" presented to a "small and courtly audience," offering sustained readings that reflect the poems' tensions between authority and experience (or "pref") and address concerns of poetic freedom…
Greenfield, Stanley B., ed.
Weatherhead, A. Kingsley, ed.
New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1968.
An anthology of English poetry, arranged chronologically, with a brief introduction on "The Experience of a Poem" and a glossary of poetic terminology. The selections from Old and Middle English poetry are generally given in modern verse translation,…
