Miller, Margaret J., trans.
New York: David White, 1969.
Includes fourteen translations of materials from medieval British literary sources, from the "Mabinogion" to Thomas Malory, selected and adapted for a juvenile audience, and illustrated by Charles Keeping. Includes a translation of FranT (pp.…
A biography of Richard Stury, based on public records, with recurrent attention to his forty-year acquaintance with Chaucer as friend and associate. Touches on the "long unsolved question of Chaucer's relation to Lollardy."
Ormond, Richard and Leonee.
London: H. M. S. O., 1969.
Reproduces portraits or busts of twenty-four English poets, from Chaucer to T. S. Eliot, held in England's National Portrait Gallery, with a very brief biography and short selection of poetry for each. The portrait of Chaucer is labeled as "By an…
Traces the legacy of the mill as a metaphor for creativity, child-bearing, and sexual activity, drawing examples from WBP (3.384-90), HF (1798-99), and RvT (1.4313-14), among other sources.
Discusses garden imagery in "The Phoenix," "Roman de la Rose," "Pearl," and MerT, focusing in the latter on the theme of lust and its relation to the ideal of spiritual salvation.
Taylor, Willene P.
College Literature Association Journal 13 (1969): 153-62.
Attributes January's cuckholding in MerT to "his own stupidity," reading Chaucer's deployment of antifeminist motifs as deeply ironic and part of his broader thematic concern to show that "everyone is morally responsible for his own acts." Chaucer's…
German translation of CT, with notes and glosses,originally produced by Adolf von Düring as part of his three-volume "Geoffrey Chaucers Werke" (Strassburg, 1883-86). Hoevel's edition was reissued in 1974.
Explores how "complex irony in Chaucer has the effect of affirming both sides in a conflict or both terms in an opposition," discussing the device in TC, KnT, NPT, PardPT, and the end of the CT. Includes discussion of Boethius's "Consolation of…
Argues that Chaucer used French versions to facilitate his translation from Latin and that he sought to produce literal translations, although his prose translations are more literal than his poetic ones. Considers, Bo, Mel, Rom, Venus, and ABC,…
Describes how the Boethian concept of divine (fore)knowledge of eternity underlies various aspects of TC and explores how narrative devices, allusions, the treatment of time, and the epilogue evoke the "illusion of 'present eternite' for the reader…
Argues that post-medieval notions of comedy obscure the relations between sense and sententiousness in Chaucer's poetry, explaining that Boethian, analogous thinking underlies Chaucer's art and that Hebraic and Graeco-Roman poetic traditions help to…
Explores the classical and medieval poetic theories that underlie the genre of the fabliau, particularly its lack of concern with meaningfulness, commenting on several French fabliaux, and discussing the comedy and satire of MilT, RvT, ShT, and SumT.…
Brewer, D. S., and L. Elisabeth Brewer, eds.
London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1969.
A textbook edition of selections from TC in Middle English (some 5000 lines), with an introduction and end-of-text commentary and glossary. Much of Book 4 is excluded (its Prologue of is included), and other passages reduced slightly. The…
Coghill, Nevill, and Christopher Tolkien, eds.
London: George G. Harrap and Co., 1969.
A textbook edition of MLPT in Middle English, with an introduction and end-of-text notes and glossary; includes the GP description of the Sergeant of Law. The Introduction (pp. 7-57) assesses various "puzzling features" of MLP, its place in Chaucer's…
King, Francis, and Bruce Steele, eds.
Melbourne: F. W. Cheshire, 1969.
A textbook edition of selections from CT (GP, MilPT, RvP, PardPT, PrPT, Tho, NPT, WBPT, ManPT, ParP, a selection from ParsT, and Ret) in Middle English, with facing-page glosses and end-of-text notes and commentary. Also includes passages from…
Includes selections from GP (pp. 16-33) in Middle English with Nevill Coghill's modern translation on facing pages and brief comments and notes (pp. 296-97).
Anthologizes short stories, tales and fables for juvenile readers, including a version of PardT (pp. 430-34) adapted by Jennifer Westwood, titled "Three Young Men and Death," originally published in 1967, here accompanied by a color illustration of…
Maxwell, J. C., and Douglas Gray.
Notes and Queries 214 (1969): 170.
Identifies two echoes of PF 22-25 in John Hardyng's "English Chronicle in Metre," also mentioning the later use of the PF lines in Speght's 1598 edition of Chaucer's works.
Slade, Tony.
Modern Language Review 64 (1969): 241-47.
Treats WBT as an "expression of her personality," focusing on the "matter-of-fact" tone of the tale, its humor, and its "tolerant sexual irony." However, Chaucer undercuts "her views and reactions" ironically, particularly in the pillow lecture of…
Brodnax, Mary Margaret O'Bryan.
Dissertation Abstracts International 29 (1969): 2667A.
Concentrates on Old English poems and Middle English plays that are analogous to Milton's "Paradise Lost," but includes in an appendix "[s]some relationships with The Canterbury Tales and . . . description of seven Middle English poetic analogues."
Lever, Katherine.
The Classical Journal 64 (1969): 216-18.
Looks at multiple examples of reference and allusion to Greek and Roman literature in works by Chaucer and Milton to contemplate ways in which these poets parallel modern classical scholars in their approach to the ancient world.
Wailes, Stephen A.
Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies 5.2 (1969): 92-101.
Opens a discussion of hare-hunting as parody in the Middle High German fabliau "Das Häslein" with comments on Chaucer's Monk (GP 191-92 and MkP 7.1945-48) and, with reference to medieval hunting practice, shows that the German work is farcical.
