Mitchell, Jerome, and William Provost, eds.
Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1973.
Includes an Introduction, four essays, a Panel Discussion, and an Afterword, with a subject index. For individual entries, search for Chaucer the Love Poet under Alternative Title.
Eliason, Norman E.
Jerome Mitchell and William Provost, eds. Chaucer the Love Poet (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1973), pp. 9-26.
Comments on the varieties of love in Chaucer's poetry (Christian, philosophic, courtly, and allegorical) and focuses on "ordinary" love in TC, where the personal experience of love is "not merely displayed" but probed with thoughtfulness, honesty,…
Reiss, Edmund.
Jerome Mitchell and William Provost, eds. Chaucer the Love Poet (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1973), pp. 27-44.
Treats parody as a technique that expresses the inadequacies of a given topic but also evokes its ideals, exemplifying how Chaucer achieves this dual perspective in BD, PF, TC, and Part 1 of CT.
Kaske, R. E.
Jerome Mitchell and William Provost, eds. Chaucer the Love Poet (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1973), pp. 45-65.
Restricts the "marriage group" to the four components originally proposed by George Lyman Kittredge (WBPT, ClT, MerT, FranT), disclosing the intricacies of their interconnections and considering in turn their various attitudes toward sex and mastery…
Wimsatt, James I.
Jerome Mitchell and William Provost, eds. Chaucer the Love Poet (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1973), pp. 66-90.
Surveys the uses of the biblical Song of Songs in medieval secular love poetry as background to exploring Chaucer's uses of it in BD and TC, and his comic adaptations of it in MerT and MilT.
Duncan, Edgar H., moderator.
Jerome Mitchell and William Provost, eds. Chaucer the Love Poet (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1973), pp. 91-106.
Panelists include Norman E. Eliason, Robert E. Kaske, Edmund Reiss, and James I. Wimsatt, exchanging views on Chaucer's love poetry and fielding questions from the audience at a symposium held at the University of Georgia, 1971. Recurrent concern…
Considers the depictions of poverty in the opening of NPT (7.2821-46) in light of the apparently contradictory attitudes expressed in MLP (2.99-133) and the gentility speech of WBT (3.1177-1206), finding "contextualized" truths. Also considers…
Explores the influence of CT on Spenser's "Faerie Queene," especially the Renaissance version of Chaucer's work available to Spenser in Thynne's edition. Includes a list of Spenser's references and allusions to Chaucer.
Empringham, Antoinette Fleur.
DAI 33.09 (1973): 5119A.
Reads LGW, MkT, and HF as structurally successful works when viewed in light of medieval "Gothic" aesthetics of "inorganic" structure, derived from visual tradition.
Surveys rhetorical traditions in fourteenth-century England and assesses the impact of "artes poetriae," "grammaticae," and "praedicandi" on Chaucer's poetry generally and on NPT in particular. Includes appendixes of medieval rhetorical terms (with…
Surveys two medieval attitudes toward marriage (pro-matrimonial [Aquinas] and anti-matrimonial [Jerome] and their depictions in various tales of virgin martyrs, analyzing SNT most extensively.
Argues that Thop can be read as a didactic narrative that breaks off at the "point most effective for developing the theme of salvation" which is brought to conclusion in Mel. The tales share similar concerns with vice and with the world, the flesh,…
Explores Chaucer's rhetorical, "inorganic," "non-narrative" structuring devices in various works: BD, Anel, selected lyrics, and TC, with comments on aspects of LGW and CT, especially Part 7 and ManT.
Surveys criticism that considers the Ceyx and Alcyone story in BD, exegetical readings in particular, and edits a version of the tale found in fourteenth-century Ovidian manuscripts available in Chaucer's England, with full apparatus and with…
Assesses ambivalence, conventional morality, and the functions of art in CT and in Juan Ruiz's "Libro de Buen Amor," commenting on the role of the narrator in Chaucer and the "staging" of multiple views on "caritas" and "cupiditas" in both works.
Surveys the interrelated astrological, mythographical, and allegorical traditions of Mars in the Middle Ages, and focuses on the myth of his adultery with Venus and its representations in the plots and allusions of Chaucer's Complaint of Mars, KnT,…
Surveys medieval understandings of Rome and its history as background to understanding Chaucer's allusions to Rome and Romans, especially his treatments of them in PhyT, SNT, the Caesar and Nero accounts in MkT, and the Lucrece legend of LGW.…
Wilson, James H.
Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 74 (1973): 292-96.
Argues that the theme of idleness and the triads of characters in PardT and SNT encourage us to read these tales in sequence--a feature of the ordering of the fragments of CT proposed by Henry Bradshaw.
Whitman, Frank H.
Tennessee Studies in Literature 18 (1973): 1-11.
Reads the depiction of Troilus in TC in light of Gower's castigation of knightly love in "Vox Clamantis," arguing that both poets critique immoral love, even though Chaucer's poses ironically a "sentimental" view of his protagonist.
Watts, Ann C.
Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 3 (1973): 87-113.
Considers the ambivalent treatment of fame in HF: as a sinful desire, as a goal for poets, and as an "amoral record of the past." Argues that this ambivalence is rooted in Boethius's "Consolation of Philosophy" and that it reflects Chaucer's…
Varnaite, Irena.
Literatūra: Lietuvos TSR Aukštųjų Mokyklų Mokslo Darbai 15.3 (1973): 19-33.
Comments on aspects of convention, generic variety, and characterization in BD, PF, HF, LGW, and TC as evidence of Chaucer's status as a "great representative of the mediaeval culture and a pioneer of Renaissance art." In Russian, with Lithuanian and…
