Van Ameyden van Duym, Hidde Hendrik.
DAI 31.08 (1971): 4137.
Studies English/Flemish relations and Chaucer's contact with the Low Countries as a diplomat and as Controller of Customs, gauging the extent to which this contact affected his fiction in SqT, MerT, and WBP, and the ways that his "realism" can be…
Newstead, Helaine.
J. Burke Severs, ed. Recent Middle English Scholarship and Criticism: Survey and Desiderata (Pittsburgh, Penn.: Duquesne University Press, 1971), 97-107.
Identifies trends in Chaucer criticism from ca. 1950-1970, observing attention paid to his religious views, rhetoric, style, and poetics, with comments on individual studies.
Barnes, Donna R., ed.
Minneapolis, Minn.: Burgess, 1971.
An anthology of readings that pertain to medieval education among various classes and institutions, with individual readings drawn from primary sources and modern analyses, and with brief sectional introductions by the editor. Among the 95 readings…
An anthology of poetry for beginners, with an introduction to understanding and explicating poetry, selections from "Ten Great Poets," and an additional "One Hundred Poems" which includes the GP description of the Wife of Bath
Robinson, Ian.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1971.
Explores what can and cannot be known about the meter and rhythm of Chaucer's verse and that of his contemporaries and followers, arguing that Chaucer employed a lively "balanced parameter" that is not heavily restricted by regularity and that should…
Rowland, Beryl.
[Kent, Ohio]: Kent State University Press, 1971.
Studies various aspects of Chaucer's animal imagery (particularly mammals), describing their traditional associations, and exploring Chaucer's uses of these conventions, drawing on natural history, exegesis, and popular lore as well as the animals'…
Allen, Judson Boyce.
Nashville, Tenn.: Vanderbilt University Press, 1971.
Describes modes of literary analysis and understanding characteristic of the late Middle Ages, derived from the work of "classicizing writers" such as Robert Holcot, John Lathbury, Thomas Ringstead, John Ridewell, John Bromyard, Thomas Waleys, and…
Bettridge, William Edwin, and Francis Lee Utley,
Texas Studies in Literature and Language13 (1971): 158-208.
Explores the sources of Boccaccio's version of the Griselda story, assessing international oral and literary versions and commenting occasionally on features of ClT. Includes as an appendix summaries of nine Greek and Turkish analogues.
Burbridge, Roger T.
Annuale Mediaevale 12 (1971): 30-36.
Compares and contrasts aspects of RvT with two analogues, the A and B versions of "Le Meunier et les .II. Clers," arguing that Chaucer's version achieves greater vitality, clearer characterizations and motivations, and a great deal of comic irony.
Colwell, C. Carter.
New York: Putnam's Sons, 1971.
Surveys English literature in Britain from Chaucer to ca. 1970, with the opening section (pp. 13-72) covering Chaucer's life, works, audience and reception, and his cultural environment--both historical and literary. Pays particular attention to CT,…
Foster, Edward E.
Ball State University Forum 11.4 (1971): 14-20.
Explores the extent to which the narrator and the dreamer, as separate psychologies, experience consolation through the progress of BD, assessing parallels between the Ceyx and Alcyone account and the dream of the knight' sorrow.
Gellrich, Jesse M.
English Language Notes 8 (1971): 248-52.
Argues that the "Kynges Noote" (MilT 1.3217) refers to "Gabriel from hevene came," a Middle English poem accompanied by a Latin version in one manuscript.
An anthology of "subversive," parodic, or satiric poetry, arranged in several categories pertaining to religion, authority, war, justice, etc., mostly English or translated from French. Includes RvT (pp. 104-20) in Middle English (with glosses) in…
Argues that "linguistic irony which results from [an] extended pun on 'amor'" runs throughout CT, supported by the diction and imagery of gold. Spiritual love is associated recurrently with positive images of gold; earthly love, with negative ones.
Hill, Betty.
Proceedings of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society Literary and Historical Section 14 (1971): 207-20.
Reads six stanzas from TC (3.85-126), closely analyzing rhymes and rhythm, alliteration, diction and phrases, repetitions and echoes of other works to exemplify the "pliable pleasure" afforded by Chaucer's style and his engagement with oral and…
Hoffman, Nancy Y.
Matthew J. Bruccoli and C. F. Frazer Clark, Jr., eds. Fitzgerald/Hemingway Annual 1971 (Washington, D.C.: NCR/Microcard Editions, 1971), pp. 148-58.
Identifies parallels between TC and F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby," treating plot, theme, and characterization, and regarding the two works as tragedies of false gentilesse or gentility.
Tripp, Raymond P. Jr.
Rendezvous 6.1 (1971): 23-28.
Explores the "idea of limitation" in KnT, identifying "statements and narrative situations [that are] suggestive of what we cannot know and cannot say." In some ways like the death of Blanche in BD, Arcite's death is inexplicable and inexpressible,…
Considers TC to be "amphibious," both a tragedy and, ironically, a comedy, when read in light of Chaucer's changes to Boccaccio's "Filostrato" and his additions from Boethius's "Consolatio."
Identifies a "consistent pattern" in Chaucer's works of comparing "the songs and melodies of lovers to sacred and philosophical medieval musics," religious and astronomical. Examines concord and discord in musical references in KnT, PF, ManT, TC,…
