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Chaucer’s Poetry: An Anthology for the Modern Reader.
Donaldson, E. T[albot], ed.
New York: Ronald, 1958.
Edits the majority of Chaucer's verse (no prose included) in normalized spelling and modern punctuation, with bottom-of-page glosses and occasional brief notes. Omits Book 3 of HF, the legends of LGW (but LGWP-G included), several lyrics, and…
Geoffrey Chaucer.
Dunn, Charles W.
In Frank N. Magill, ed. Cyclopedia of World Literature (New York: Harper, 1958), pp. 204-06.
Lists Chaucer's works in chronological order, summarizes his career as a civil servant and poet, and offers a brief list of bibliographical references.
Cambalus in the Squire's Tale.
Emerson, Francis Willard.
Notes and Queries 203 (1958): 461.
Suggests two unattested emendations to SqT: pluralizing "Cambalus" in 5.656 (to mean two brothers), and changing "hewe" to "shewe" in 5.640.
The Spenser-Followers in Leigh Hunt's Chaucer.
Emerson, Francis Willard.
Notes and Queries 203 (1958): 284-86.
Shows that in his "Cambus Khan" Leigh Hunt is indebted to Edmund Spenser (and others who followed him) in modernizing Part I of SqT "almost as much as he is to Chaucer."
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, A.4353.
Emerson, Katherine T.
Explicator 16 (1958): item 51.
Explains the Host's reference to "gentil Roger" in GP 1.4353 as a possible play on "Roger Knyght de Ware, Cook," found by Edith Rickert in a 1384-85 plea of debt and reported in the "Times Literary Supplement," October 20, 1932, p. 761.
The Yellow Hat.
Faulkner, Nancy.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1958.
Historical novel for juvenile readers, set in London in 1381. Follows the growing romantic friendship between Kate, serving maid to Chaucer in his Aldgate residence, and a young commoner, Adam, who chooses to remain in London after the Uprising…
Chaucer and Aristotle.
Fox, Robert C.
Notes and Queries 203 (1958): 523-24.
Suggests that Aristotle is the "most likely" referent for "the philosopher" in ParsT 10.484.
Chaucer's Journeys in 1368.
Galway, Margaret.
Times Literary Supplement, April 4, 1958, p. 183.
Argues from the evidence of life-records that Chaucer might well have accompanied Prince Lionel to Milan in 1368 when the latter wedded Violanta Visconti. Presents this in support of Ethel Seaton's discussion of PF (Medium Aevum 25.3 [1956]: 168-74)…
The Narrator in Chaucer's "Troilus."
Jordan, Robert. M.
ELH: English Literary History 25.4 (1958): 237-57.
Analyzes the narrator of TC as a "dramatic" character—one who is known "by what he says rather than what is said about him"--whose shifting perspectives in the poem inflect readers' opinions of the other characters and their actions. The shifts also…
Canterbury Tales, A 2349-52.
Kovetz, Gene H.
Notes and Queries 203 (1958): 236-37.
Observes an inconsistency in Emily's address to Diana in KnT 1.2349-52 that results from Chaucer's change in the sequence of the three protagonists' addresses to deities, altering his source in Boccaccio's "Teseida." Suggests that Chaucer was…
The Swallow in Chaucer's "Miller's Tale."
Kreuzer, James R.
Modern Language Notes 73.2 (1958): 81.
Shows that evidence from a twelfth-century bestiary may indicate that the comparison of Alison to a swallow in MilT 1.3257-58 ironically anticipates later events of the plot--her "departure" from John and his fall from the roof beam.
Chaucer's "Shipman's Tale."
Lawrence, William W.
Speculum 33.1 (1958): 56-68.
Describes the fabliau features of ShT, comments on its likely (though unknown) source, observes that its "personal generalizations" are unusual in the genre, and assesses its treatment of women and its stylistic features as evidence that its original…
Secular Dramatics in the Royal Palace, Paris, 1378, 1389, and Chaucer's "Tregetoures."
Loomis, Laura Hibbard.
Speculum 33.2 (1958): 242-55.
Identifies the "tregetoures" of FranT 4.1141, not as jugglers or magicians, but as the "actors, craftsmen, 'artisans mécaniques'" who produced spectacular entertainments such as the ones recorded by chroniclers to have taken place at the Royal…
The Clash and the Fusion of Medieval and Renaissance Elements in Chaucer's "Troilus."
MacKay, Eleanor Maxine.
Ph.D. Dissertation. Emory University, 1958.
Dissertation Abstracts International A 81/1(E). Full-text available from ProQuest Dissertations and Theses; accessed April 11, 2024.
Dissertation Abstracts International A 81/1(E). Full-text available from ProQuest Dissertations and Theses; accessed April 11, 2024.
Argues that TC, in its "integration of style, structure, and theme with meaning," is best regarded as "transitionally Renaissance in its entire import." Articulates differences between medieval and Renaissance cultures, and argues that TC better…
Two Chaucer Allusions of 1659.
Mackerness, E. D.
Notes and Queries 203 (1958): 197-98.
Notes and Queries 203 (1958): 197-98.
Identifies allusions to Chaucer from the "Periamma Epidemion" of 1659: to the description of the Physician in GP 1.437-38 and to WBP 3.227-28
Chaucer's Good Fair White: Woman and Symbol.
Manning, Stephen.
Comparative Literature 10.2 (1958): 97-105.
Contrasts the sorrows of the Dreamer and of Alcyone with that of the Man in Black in BD, arguing that the first two serve to elevate the intensity of the latter. Then examines the epideitic praise of Blanche/White as a form of personification that…
The Philosophy of the Clerk of Oxford.
Morse, J. Mitchell.
Modern Language Quarterly 19 (1958): 3-20.
Describes the "intellectual milieu" of the Clerk in order to characterize him as "man of essentially humanistic temper, aware of so many complexities . . . that he found it difficult to rest in dogmatic assurance of anything." Traces the "movement…
Mediaeval Art and Aesthetics in "The Canterbury Tales."
Mroczkowski, Przemysław.
Speculum 33.2 (1958): 204-21.
Sketches the development of "Gothic humanism," Platonism, and naturalism in medieval "plastic arts" and theory, locating similar principles and practices in CT--the principles expressed at the opening of PhyT and the practices found in a variety of…
The Swearings in Chaucer.
Murata, Yazaburo.
In Kazuo Araki, and others, eds. Studies in English Grammar and Linguistics: A Miscellany in Honour of Takanobu Otsuka (Tokyo: Kenkyushi, 1958), pp. 289-99.
Describes Chaucer's "power and limitations as a stylist," offering examples, and tabulating more extensively examples of oaths and swearing in Chaucer's works, including strong and weak oaths, wishes, and imprecations.
The Development of the "Canterbury Tales"
Owen, Charles A., Jr.
Journal of English and Germanic Philology 57.3 (1958): 449-76.
Posits a "chronology of growth" for the CT, seeking "to follow the imagination of the poet and to recapture the dynamics of creation" evident in Chaucer's apparent changes in plan. Comments on earlier scholarly efforts to explain or understand…
"Joye after wo" in the "Knight's Tale."
Pratt, Robert A.
Journal of English and Germanic Philology 57.3 (1958): 416-23.
Traces the unifying theme of joy after woe in KnT, "brought about both by the plot and by Boethian Destiny," focusing on Arcite's achievement of "welfare" and Palamon's "wele" after both start in sorrow. Theseus similarly replaces Egeus's saturnine…
Another Minor Analogue to Chaucer's Pandarus.
Renoir, Alain.
Notes and Queries 203 (1958): 248-49.
Identifies three "predominant" characteristics shared in the characterizations of Pandarus in TC and of "the slave Spurius, who plays the part of a pander for a young lover in Guillaume de Blois' Latin farce 'Alda,' written somewhat before 1170:…
A Note on Chaucer's Women.
Renoir, Alain.
Notes and Queries 203 (1958): 283-84.
Explores similarities of Chaucer's description of women's hair (KnT 1.1048-50, PF 267-68, and TC 5.808-12) and Apuleius's "Metamorphoses" II.10, suggesting a similar aesthetic rather than a source relationship, and noting that all resonate with…
The Atlantic Book of British and American Poetry.
Sitwell, Dame Edith, ed.
Boston: Little, Brown, 1958.
Anthologizes a wide range of selections from British and American literature—poetry, fiction, drama, and translations, with brief, appreciative introductions to individual authors and their works. Includes description of Chaucer as a "poet of light,"…
"My modres gate" and "El Palo del Viejo."
Steadman, John M.
Notes and Queries 203 (1958): 323.
Suggests that the "gate-metaphor" of PardT 6.729 derives from a Spanish proverb fused with Maximianus's "Elegy" I.