Farnham, Anthony E.
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1969.
Designed as a textbook for study of the history of the English language; includes 24 samples of English prose and poetry, with facing-page translations and brief intoductions. Two selections from Chaucer's works: ABC (pp. 63-75) and Bo 1.prose 6…
Gardner, John.
Language and Style 2 (1969): 143-71.
Explores how and in what ways the "psychological realism" of BD is established and reinforced by the verbal and structural repetitions of the poem. Considers the nature of the dream, the view of love, and the interaction of the narrator and the…
Textbook edition of GP with end-of-text notes, glossary, and dictionary of proper names, accompanied by an Introduction that addresses the role of GP in CT, as well as its art and "Inheritance." Also includes several appendixes: "The Poet and His…
Hoy, Michael, and Michael Stevens.
London: Norton Bailey, 1969.
Comprises seven essays (three by Stevens; four by Hoy) that discuss eight portions of CT (GP, KnT, PrT and ClT, CYPT, FranT, PardPT, NPT), with brief notes, bibliography, and an index. Recurrent concern with unity, narrative skill, aesthetic order…
Kearney, A. M.
Essays in Criticism 19 (1969): 245-53.
Argues that tensions within FranT indicate that Chaucer was subtly reinforcing the notion that male sovereignty in marriage is, realistically, advisable when combined with mutual trust and cooperation between the partners.
Kelly, Edward H.
Papers on Language and Literature 5 (1969): 362-74.
Reads the tone and details of PrT as consistent with the characterization of the Prioress established in GP. A "ful" large woman fixated on immaturity and smallness, the Prioress admires motherhood and empathizes with the innocence of the clergeon,…
Describes considerations of mutability from "Antiquity Through the Middle Ages" and then focuses on Chaucer's works, with individual sections that assess aspects of the theme in Chaucer's translations, his lyric poems, his dream visions, TC, KnT, and…
Schmidt, A. V. C.
Essays in Criticism 19 (1969): 107-17.
Argues that KnT is "mainly about" the tragedy of Arcite rather than the success of Palamon. The latter mistakes both the nature of Emelye and the rivalry of Arcite, who is a "worthier" man. Like Troilus, Arcite falls in fortune, and ultimately fails…
Bergeron, David M.
University Review 35 (1969): 279-86.
Treats WBPT as an analogue to Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew," observing shared "allusions, rhetorical formulas, [and] character presentations" as well as the theme of the "problems of marriage." The two works share "many common…
Bessent, Benjamin R.
Studia Neophilologica 41 (1969): 99-111.
Considers Chaucer's "references to time" in TC in light of parallel passages in Boccaccio's "Filostrato," considering variants in TC manuscripts and arguing that Chaucer's concern with time in the poem results from his "desire to portray Criseyde as…
Argues that Chaucer is "multivoiced" and a "realist par excellence" whose "verism . . . encompasses minor elements like obscenity and bawdry." Draws examples from TC and CT, WBPT most extensively.
Brunt, Andrew
Notes and Queries 214 (1969): 87-88.
Regards the detail of covering the child's eyes in MLT 2.840-41 as a "homely touch" of pathos, perhaps drawn from child-care advice found in Bartholomaeus Anglicus, "De Proprietatibus Rerum."
Cotter, James Finn.
English Language Notes 6 (1969): 169-72.
Contrasts the Wife of Bath's uses in WBP of the Pauline image of marital debt with commentaries found in St. Jerome and Thomas Aquinas, showing how she uses it to claim male debt only.
Facsimile reproduction of Greaves' grammar (1594), which was the second grammar of English to be printed; includes as an appendix a six-page "Vocabula Chauceriana," the first glossary of Chaucer's lexicon.
Hamer, Douglas
Notes and Queries 214 (1969): 335-36.
Identifies a French prose version (1882) of a West-African tale that is analogous to PardT and perhaps translated first from Arabic into Fula (Peuls) when Moslems entered the area.
Ito, Masayoshi.
Studies in English Literature (Tokyo) 46 (1969): 29-44.
Analyzes "rime riche" (identical rhyme) in Gower's poetry, focusing on the "abundance" of rime-riche couplets in "Confessio Amantis," and discussing a number of points of comparison and contrast with Chaucer's practice in his verse. Revised version:…
Describes and assesses Blake's understanding of Chaucer and his Canterbury pilgrims, and surmises (in Appendix A) that Blake used Tyrwhitt's edition of CT. Includes reproductions of Blake's engraving of Chaucer's Pilgrims and of Thomas Stothard's…
Reads KnT as an expression of the narrator's pessimistic yet stoic view of human "travails and uncertainties," evident in the prevailing "sense of the insignificance of the major actions" of the plot, and reinforced by grim humor and by the tension…
Norman, Arthur.
E. Bagby Atwood and Archibald A. Hill, eds. Studies in Language, Literature, and Culture of the Middle Ages and Later (Austin: University of Texas, 1969), pp. 312-23.
Describes the episodic symmetrical structure of MLT; comments on the characterization of Constance; identifies the rhetorical uses of occupatio and elaboration in the Tale; and (in footnote 1) summarizes its concern with astrology, fate, and Boethian…
Atwood, E. Bagby, and Archibald A. Hill, eds.
Austin: University of Texas, 1969.
Thirty three essays by various authors on wide-ranging topics, presented in honor of Rudolph Willard. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Studies in Language, Literature, and Culture of the Middle Ages and Later under Alternative…
Pratt, Robert A.
E. Bagby Atwood and Archibald A. Hill, eds. Studies in Language, Literature, and Culture of the Middle Ages and Later (Austin: University of Texas, 1969), pp. 303-11.
Adduces details from MLT, PardT, Anel, SqT, FranT, Purse, MkT, and PhyT to show that Chaucer was influenced, not only by Trevet's Constance narrative, but by his "Cronicles" more broadly.
Pearcy Roy J.
Notes and Queries 214 (1969): 333-35.
Argues that the "fabliau of the 'Sot chevalier' by Gautier le Leu" is a source for the branding scene of MilT and for the summary of action at the end of the Tale.
Sketches the obscurities of Pandarus's character and motivations in TC, and, examining patterns of imagery and allusion, argues that he is both a voyeur and a Tantalus-figure whose "punishment [is] to endure for ever the agonies of unfulfilled…
