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Smith, D. Vance.   Seth Lerer, ed. The Yale Companion to Chaucer (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2006), pp. 87-121.
Smith traces various threads of Chaucer's relationships with English poetic tradition: GP and Langland's "Piers Plowman"; Th and native romance; echoes of Sir " Orfeo"; alliterative verse in Chaucer; and the complex concerns of native tradition,…

Lynch, Andrew.   Helen M. Hickey, Anne McKendry, and Melissa Raine, eds. Contemporary Chaucer across the Centuries (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2018), pp. 172-87.
Focuses on nineteenth-century critical attention to Chaucer as childlike, simple, or fresh for the ways that it contributed to later inattention to Chaucer as a religious poet, particularly inattention to Chaucer as an English Catholic poet. Examines…

Richmond, Velma Bourgeois.   Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, 2004.
Richmond studies British and American adaptations of Chaucer's CT for children, from Charles Cowden Clarke's "Tales from Chaucer in Prose" (1833) until World War I. She examines the selections and adaptations of the Tales and the accompanying…

Ridge, George Ross, and Benedict Chiaka Njoka.   George Ross Ridge and Benedict Chiaka Njoka. The Christian Tragic Hero in French and English Literature (Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities Press, 1983), pp. 73-84.
Impressionistic survey of four Catholic motifs in the CT: the journey of Everyman, fate versus free will, marriage as a sacrament, and the Stoic notion of the "nobleness of man," considering them for the ways that, in Chaucer's presentation, they…

Sudo, Jun.   Essays Commemorating the Retirement of Professor Sachiho Tanaka (Tokyo: Kirihara Shoten, 1988), pp. 25-39.
Examines the words "drinke" (TC 2.651), "dwale" (RvT 4161), "pervynke" (Rom 1432), and "herber" (TC 2.1705) and passages in CYT, NPT, KnT, and MerT, maintaining that Chaucer displays ample knowledge of medieval herbal lore.

Despres, Denise.   Suzanne Conklin Akbari and James Simpson, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. 527-44.
Discusses iconography and pilgrimage, and Chaucer's investments in and depiction of the "power of images" through tales of CT, including GP, PrT, and PardT. Argues that "Chaucer demonstrates that devotional images . . . are inherently polymorphous…

Mudrick, Marvin.   Philological Quarterly 38 (1959): 21-29.
Critiques attempts to modernize Chaucer's verse for the sake of the "common reader," preferring Augustan "imitations" to twentieth-century renderings in verse or prose, but finding them all to be relatively dull and incapable of replicating Chaucer's…

Stark, Marilynn Dianne.   Dissertation Abstracts International 39 (1978): 2925A.
In CT, Chaucer examines or modifies various elements of the romance genre: adventure, wonder, medieval didacticism, and love. Three narrators of the tales comically muddle the romance: Sir Thopas, the Squire, and the Franklin. KnT is Chaucer's…

Green, Donald C.   Pacific Coast Philology 18 (1983): 59-69.
"Nuditarian," a euphemism for "bawdy" that was applied to Chaucer in 1869, points to a "cognitive dissonance" between Chaucer's greatness and his dealing with unfit subjects.

Klitgard, Ebbe.   Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses 47 (2003): 101-13.
Assesses the "linguistic, communicative and narrative markers of performativity" in BD, HF, and PF, arguing that Chaucer composed them for live performance but also with an eye to repeated performance or reading.

Burrow, John.   Chaucer Review 45 (2011): 349-56.
In Purse, For, and Scog, Chaucer employs the basic elements of an official 'supplicacio' "with great freedom, voicing them in a variety of unexpected ways."

Machan, Tim William.   Dissertation Abstracts International 45 (1984): 1393A.
Study of Bo in light of related French and Latin manuscripts reveals that the work may be an underrated rough draft. Chaucer strives for faithful and intelligible translation, rejecting alien structures and coining words as needed.

Benson, C. David.   John Michael Crafton, ed. Selected Essays: International Conference on Representing Revolution, 1989. (Carrollton): West Georgia College International Conference, 1991, pp. 9-20.
Compares Chaucer's poetry and the so-called Peasants' Revolt of 1381, demonstrating their common unexpectedness, extremism, touches of conservatism, and uniqueness. As is clear from his treatment of the Revolt in NPT, Chaucer was not a political…

Woolf, Rosemary.   Rosemary Woolf. Art and Doctrine (London: Hambledon Press, 1986), pp. 77-84.
Overfamiliarity with GP blunts readers' perceptions. Chaucer shows characters "so far from the true moral order, that they are not ashamed to talk with self-satisfaction about their own inversion of a just and religiously-ordered way of life." The…

Loganbill, Dean.   Publications of the Missouri Philological Association 3 (1977): 1-9.
PF can be used as a vehicle for notional instead of Newtonian criticism. It is better interpreted as a complicated art form rather than as social criticism.

Eisner, Sigmund, and Marijane Osborn.   Daniel T. Kline, ed. Medieval Literature for Children (London: Routledge, 2003), pp. 155-87.
An introduction to Astr by Eisner that emphasizes Chaucer ability to write clear instructions for a child, followed by Osborn's Modern English version of the treatise.

Kern-Stähler, Annette.   In Sibylle Baumbach, Birgit Neumann, and Ansgar Nünning, eds. A History of British Poetry: Genre--Developments--Interpretations (Trier: WVT, 2015), pp. 29–40.
Introduces Chaucer as a poet and explores reasons for his canonical status, describing his use of English, his lexicon, and his verse forms. Focuses on CT as "arguably one of the most innovative narrative poems in English," commenting on the opening…

Machan, Tim William.   Roger Ellis, ed. The Medieval Translator: The Theory and Practice of Translation in the Middle Ages. Papers read at the University of Wales Conference Centre, Gregynog Hall, 20-23 August 1987 (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1989), pp. 55-67.
Evaluates Chaucer as a translator according to the theories and principles of translation current in Chaucer's day.

Robbins, Rossell Hope, ed.   New York: Franklin, 1975.
Ten essays by various authors, originally presented at the Chaucer Conference at the State University of New York in Albany, November, 1973. For ten essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Chaucer at Albany under Alternative Title.

Finley, William K.   Appendix 3 in William K. Finley and Joseph Rosenblum, eds. Chaucer Illustrated: Five Hundred Years of the Canterbury Tales in Pictures (New Castle, Del. : Oak Knoll; London: British Library, 2003), pp. 423-37.
Introduces and reprints Robert van Vorst Sewell's "The Canterbury Pilgrimage: A Decorative Frieze" (New York: American Art Galleries, n.d.), which Sewell wrote to accompany the mural frieze he painted in George Gould's Georgian Court mansion, now…

Ellis, Steve.   Minneapolis and London : University of Minnesota Press, 2000.
Surveys twentieth-century manifestations of Chaucer and his works outside of academe, considering the Kelmscott Chaucer and various other reflections of popular perception: occasional essays, translations, audio and visual reproductions of his life…

Ferris, Sumner.   Chaucer Review 15 (1981): 295-321.
As all five saints of PrT had Lincoln associations in Chaucer's day, so the poem was intended for Lincoln. PrT commemorates the visit to Lincoln Minster, on March 26, 1387, of Richard II, who sought by its means the political support of John…

Bennett, J. A W.   Oxford: Clarendon, 1974.
A series of studies that focus on Chaucer's clerks, particularly their university backgrounds and the social conditions that serve as backdrop to their activities. Includes four sections: "Life and Learning in Rolls and Records," "Town and Gown,"…

Cooper, Helen.
  Marginalia 19 (2015): 4–15.
Plenary lecture positions Chaucer as important to sixteenth-century writers for his incorporation of the Latin rhetorical tradition—particularly the concepts of decorum and Augustine's three levels of style—into English, even as he does so with…

Stanley, E. G.   Review of English Studies 48 (1997): 157-67.
Geoffrey Chaucer, traditionally thought to be an early resident of Woodstock, and John Churchill, first duke of Marlborough, are united by geography. Together they represent English glory and are thus commemorated in minor verse of the eighteenth…
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