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Ellis, Steve.   Yeats Annual 11 (1995): 45-60
W.B. Yeats's early interest in Chaucer as a populist poet gave way to a "more occasional interest in the aristocratic and esoteric elements of Chaucer's works." For only a brief time, after receiving a copy of the Kelmscott Chaucer in 1907, Yeats…

Hill, Betty.   Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 74 (1973): 665-75.
Explicates several words and images found in MilT--the "piggesnye" of Alison's description most extensively--and identifies echoes of the tale's concern with "poetic justice" in RvT which contributes to the bitterness of the latter.

Biggins, D.   Philological Quarterly 42 (1963): 558-62.
Examines the statement about alliterative verse in ParsP 10.42-46, arguing that the "rum, ram, ruf" sequence has its source in French and helps to constitute a "meaningful . . . and technically adroit comment on alliterative poetry."

Jeffrey, David Lyle.   Robert C. Roberts, Scott H. Moore, and Donald D. Schmeltekopf, eds. Finding a Common Thread: Reading Great Texts from Homer to O'Connor (South Bend, Ind.: St. Augustine's Press, 2013), pp. 167-85, 335-36.
Offers a historicized, "iconological," Great Texts approach to CT, reading the poem as a "staged retelling of many tales, old and new" that is thereby "particularly pertinent for the larger rationale of a Great Texts curriculum." Traces two thematic…

Leyerle, John,and Anne Quick.ed. and pref.,   Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1986.
Designed for readers relatively unfamiliar with Chaucer, this bibliography annotates 1,200+ items in three categories: materials for the study of Chaucer's works, Chaucer's works,and backgrounds.

Baum, Paull F.   Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1958.
[xii], 229 pp.
Appreciative commentary on Chaucer’s life and works, considering what can and cannot be determined from his life-records and literature, why he may not have completed several works, why (though a civil servant) he did not comment on political events,…

Turner, Marion/   Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019.
Provides a critical biography of Chaucer that tells “the story of his life and his poetry through places and spaces, rather than through strict chronology,” with a “General Prologue,” an “Epilogue,” and twenty chapters pertaining to, for example, the…

Southworth, James G.   College English 26.3 (1964) 173-79.
Critiques the editorial practice of "smoothing" Chaucer's verse to produce iambic pentameter rhythms by adjustments to final-"e," and advocates following medieval scribal practice of using the "'punctus elevatus'—the medial mark" to indicate the "two…

Benson, L[arry] D.   Derek Brewer, ed. Geoffrey Chaucer. Writers and their Background (London: G. Bell, 1974), pp. 352-72.
Accompanies Benson's discursive "Reader's Guide to Chaucer," included in the same volume (pp. 321-51). Lists selected "critical and scholarly works" (some lightly annotated), and indicates with an asterisk works that are "especially suitable for…

Leyerle, John,and Anne Quick,eds.   Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1981.

Baragona, Alan.   Baragona's Literary Resources, n.d.
Lists approximately 250 books and articles pertaining to the study of Chaucer published before 2004. Formerly hosted at Virginia Military Institute.

Rossignol, Rosalyn.   New York : Facts on File, 1999.
An encyclopedic dictionary of Chaucer and his works, with entries from "abbeviato" to "Zeuxis." Entries pertaining to Chaucer's works include separate plot summaries and commentaries; those pertaining to his biography include people, places, and…

Saito, Isamu.   Tokyo : Nan'undo, 2000.
Includes twelve essays pertaining to The Canterbury Tales and brings Chaucer's ambiguous, mischievous, and pious gazes to light.

Hussey, S. S.   London: Methuen, 1971; 2nd ed. 1982.
Introduces Chaucer's life and works to the modern reader, summarizing the plots of individual works and explaining medieval practices and details that underlie them, and attending to their relative chronology, sources, innovations, genres, and…

Hubbard-Brown, Janet.   Philadelphia: Chelsea House, 2006.
An introduction to Chaucer for elementary and junior high school students, with nine chapters arranged biographically from boyhood to "final years." Each chapter includes a quiz. The apparatus includes a chronology and timeline, a bibliography, and…

Davenport, W. A.   Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1988.
Complaints--courtly, religious, philosophical, moral--were an integral part of Chaucer's poetry, and different combinations of lyric and narrative led to experiments in literary structures. Davenport contends that Chaucer adapts the complaint…

Fein, Susanna, and David Raybin, eds.   University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2010.
Eleven essays by various authors designed for "those who want to explore how the works of Geoffrey Chaucer are now being approached." Arranged under four headings: Chaucer's Places, Chaucer's Audiences, Chaucer and Language, and Reenvisioning…

Bardavio, Jose M.   Estudios de Filologia Inglesa 3 (1977): 5-17.
Assesses the relations between the dreamer and the narrator in BD, PF, HF, and LGW.

Hobsbaum, Philip.   Philip Hobsbaum. Tradition and Experiment in English Poetry (Totowa, NJ: Rowman and Littlefield; London: Macmillan, 1979), pp. 30-67.
Identifies a number of ways in which Chaucer is innovative in various works--metrical variety, interplay of tones, indebtedness to Continental sources and "ingenuity," combination of narrative attachment and detachment--and surveys the range of…

Youmans, Gilbert, and Xingzhong Li.   Donka Minkova and Robert Stockwell, eds. Studies in the History of the English Language: A Millennial Perspective (Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2002), pp. 153-75.
Argues that Chaucer's decasyllabic lines are based on metrically significant, statistically normative feet, with clear and significant caesuras. Chaucer's and Shakespeare's iambic lines deviate from prototypical lines in similar ways. See Thomas…

Di Rocco, Emilia.   Rome : Carocci Editore, 2003.
An introduction to CT, including discussion of Chaucer's life, the structure of CT, plots and themes of the tales, analyses of the pilgrims and major characters in their tales, and Chaucer's language and meter. Includes bibliographies for each…

Howard, Donald R.   New York: E. P. Dutton; London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1987.
This very readable biography by the late Donald Howard brings together "Chaucer, the man and the poet, and the age in which he lived." Howard traces developments in Chaucer's life from birth to death, setting Chaucer's works contextually within the…

Dor, Juliette De Caluwe, trans.   Paris: Christian Bourgois, 10/18, Bibliotheque Medievale, 1991.
Introduction, bibliography, and French translations of WBP, WBT, ClT, MerT, FranT, PhyT, PardT, ShT, PrT, NPT, SNT, CYT,and ManT.

Ashby, Cristina, Geoff Couldrey, Susan Dickson, et al.   Woodbridge, Conn., and Reading, U.K.: Primary Source Media, 1995.
A "comprehensive interactive resource for both students and teachers," providing hypertext-linked, point-and-click access to Chaucer's works ("The Riverside Chaucer") and accompanying glossary, introductions to the works and seventeen previously…

Wagenknecht, Edward, ed.   New York: Oxford University Press, 1959.
Reprints twenty-sex selections/excerpts from previous criticism, seventeen pertaining to CT, four on TC, two on LGW, and one each on BD, HF, and PF.
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