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Item not seen. WorldCat records indicate this printed musical score includes settings for poetry by Chaucer, Myles Pinkney, St. Teresa of Jesus, and Richard Verstegan (Rowlands), with printed lyrics. An online reprint of page 1 shows the Chaucer…

Four connected webpages that introduce Chaucer's language by focusing on the pronunciation and vocabulary of the GP descriptions of the Cook and Shipman, with an audio link, an image from Caxton's first edition, and exercises in vocabulary…

Digital reproduction of William Caxton's two editions of CT that enables onscreen comparison of them, with links to background information on Caxton and print history.

Pedagogical website that focuses on CT but includes internal links to descriptions of Chaucer's other works and to background information. Individual webpages provide descriptions of the Tales that comment on themes and critical issues, accompanied…

Traces in biblical, classical, and political sources the development of the idea that the Pope and other rulers gain sovereignty through "mystical marriage" to their respective institutions, arguing that WBT "bears a striking similarity to [this]…

Item not seen. WorldCat records indicate that this is a reading of NPT and PardT in Middle English, re-released in 1956.

Combines social and intellectual history and appreciative criticism of Chaucer's writing in a "short study of Chaucer's life and works for people with literary tastes," arranged chronologically from Chaucer's youth to death. Describes his…

Assesses CT as a "realized aesthetic whole" with "a unity and nuclear meaning which develops out of the 'cortex' of pilgrimage." In GP, imagery of springtime and renewal underpin the motif of pilgrimage, with its social and religious implications;…

Alphabetical gazetteer of "geographical and ethnic names of the ancient and biblical world as reflected in the writings of Geoffrey Chaucer," along with "names pertaining to . . . the geography of Greek mythology" and the "names of languages" found…

Item not seen. WorldCat records also include a revised version published in 1979 by Pan Books.

Surveys and corrects various scholarly additions to Caroline Spurgeon's "Five Hundred Years of Chaucer Criticism and Allusion" (1925), and includes a bibliography of publications that add to or supplement Spurgeon's work.

Includes four chapters: 1) on editions of Chaucer printed in the sixteenth century; 2) allusions to him in that century; 3) his reputation at the time; and 4) sixteenth-century "centers of interest and study" of Chaucer.

Cites several phrases and details in SqT that may indicate Chaucer--and perhaps the Squire--was aware of "Mandeville's Travels."

Identifies several examples of "semi-legal" or "quasi-legal language" and a "legalistic turn of mind" in the Franklin's association with the Man of Law, his exchanges with Host, and the "explicit use of legal formulae" in FranT. Argues that Chaucer's…

Analyzes differences between MLT and its source in Nicholas Trevet's "Cronicles," with some attention to Chaucer's use of Gower's version in "Confessio Amantis." Shows that Chaucer streamlines quotidian details, adds rhetorical flourishes, and…

Disagrees with Gardiner Stillwell's argument (1950) that PF cannot be read as a poem on the occasion of the betrothal of Prince Richard of England and Princess Marie of France because it is comic. Reviews Chaucer's other occasional poems (Truth,…

Suggests that Chaucer's recurrent use of the number twelve in BD carries with it "overtones of fulfillment, completion, finality," serving as a "unifying thread." Adducing "the medieval practice of time-keeping," development of the mechanical…

Suggests that Chaucer "modeled the narrative in the first part of" SqT "upon the narrative in the first part" of "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight." Identifies nine "points of agreement between the two romances"--similarities in "order of events," the…

Quotes a seven-line, unsigned poem from "The Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure" (June 1747) that alludes to Chaucer's "Purse," without acknowledgement.

Argues on textual and thematic grounds that Mel, NPT, and ClT "antedate the conception of a Marriage Group," Chaucer linking them to it as an "afterthought." Also traces a "fairly extensive ordering and linking operation, resulting in the…

Lists and quotes five allusions to Chaucer produced between 1670 and 1698: two by William Penn, and one each by L. P., William Nicolson, and Sir Henry Spelman.

In light of patristic and iconographical traditions of scriptural commentary, bestiaries, and sermons, reads the rooster "Chauntecleer as any holy man" and the fox "Daun Russell as heretic and devil." Argues that NPT is a "sermon on alertness to…

Analyzes Chaucer's use of the "narrative technique" of "self-conscious abbreviation"--when "the poet informs the reader that abbreviation is taking place." Clarifies statistically that Chaucer signals his abbreviations more often than do…

Glosses the image of the Friar's girth in GP 1.263 as "rounded as a bell out of a 'mould,'" and suggests that it may derive from Chaucer's first-hand familiarity with bell-casting located near his residence at Aldgate, documenting that "bell-founders…

Identifies ways in which Chaucer's adaptation of Virgil’s story of Aeneas in HF "follows the arrangement of the 'Ilias' of Simon Aurea Capra, or Chevre d'Or" and "bears a resemblance especially" to an expanded version of that twelfth-century Latin…