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Windeatt, Barry, A.   Cambridge:
The chief French sources and analogues of Chaucer's four dream poems, presented here in translation, are brought together for the first time. Included are Machaut's "Jugement dou Roy de Behaingne," Froissart's "Paradys d'amours," Jean de Conde's…

St. John, Michael.   Aldershot : Ashgate, 2000.
Examines the philosophical content of Chaucer's dream visions--the interplay between the soul and its courtly context--arguing that in Chaucer's world, the ideal of courtesy rather than any explicitly spiritual principle holds together a fictive…

Quinn, William A., ed.   New York and London : Garland, 1999.
Sixteen essays by various authors on BD, HF, PF, LGW, and the short poems. Fifteen are reprints or excerpts from longer works published between 1948 and 1994. Includes a brief introduction to each of the poems (and the section on the short poems), a…

Galantic, Elizabeth Joyce.   Dissertation Abstracts International 43 (1983):2996-2997A.
Chaucer's dream visions reveal him as immersed in a literary quarrel of ancients and moderns. His iconoclasm is restrained in BD and HF, but he mocks the artificiality and decadence of contemporary love poetry in PF and LGWP.

Ryan, Marcella.   Parergon, n.s., 11 (1993): 79-90.
Applies Joseph Frank's theory of "spatial form" in the modern novel (forms in which meaning is created through simultaneity and juxtaposition rather than through linearity and causation) to BD, PF, and HF. Examines particularly the use of myth (Seys…

Rowland, Beryl.   Florilegium 16: 41-59, 1999.
Chaucer's reference to "ferses twelve" in BD remains a tantalizing problem. He may have been thinking of a non-standard version of chess, such as the Courier game, which includes twelve pawns; or the narrator may be thinking of draughts. In any case,…

Berry, Reginald.   University of Toronto Quarterly 43 (1974): 285-97.
Explains the association of the eagle and air (as the medium of sound) in HF by identifying a number of iconographic affiliations of eagles with air in medieval depictions of the four elements. Includes 6 b&w illustrations

Steadman, John M.   PMLA 75 (1960): 153-59.
Considers the eagle of HF "in the light of medieval expositions of the soaring eagle as an image of the flight of thought," focusing on the bird as an "intellectual symbol" and its flight as an "act of contemplation" as seen in Gregory's "Moralia in…

Dane, Joseph A.   Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 11 (1981): 71-82.
In having the Eagle retell the story of Phaethon from Ovid and from medieval interpretations of Ovid, Chaucer oversimplifies and creates conflicts or deficiencies of meaning; this allusive and contradictory treatment of literary tradition in HF…

Brownlee, Kevin.   Kevin Brownlee and Marina S. Brownlee, eds. New Perspectives: Studies in Honor of Stephen G. Nichols (New York: Peter Lang, 2022), pp. 277-88.
Argues that both Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun--and their "respective 'poetics'"--are "at issue" in BD 321–34 (where the "Roman de la Rose" is named), and in GP 725–46 ("Chaucer's Apology"). These evince Chaucer's deep, sophisticated, and…

Seymour, M. C.   Chaucer Review 24 (1989): 163-65.
MkT is very likely a virtually unrevised early poem, the first to be written after Chaucer's return from Italy in 1372 and his first collection of stories. As such, it deserves a separate existence, as Chaucer's early poem 'De casibus vivorum…

Scrivner, Buford.   DAI 33.06 (1972): 2905A.
Studies how imagery contributes to theme and operates at an element of structure in BD, HF, PF and TC: light and dark imagery in BD, acoustic imagery in HF, natural versus courtly love in PF, and the contrast of fortune's wheel and celestial light in…

Clemen, Wolfgang.   London: Methuen, 1963.
Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1963.
Examines how Chaucer's early poems (i.e., those written before 1380) engage the conventional forms, techniques, and themes of French and Italian models, enriching them via "humour and realism" and applying them to "new uses." His innovative…

Weiss, Alexander.   Patricia W. Cummins, Patrick W. Connor, and Charles W. Connell, eds. Literary and Historical Perspectives of the Middle Ages: Proceedings of the 1981 SEMA Meeting (Morgantown: West Virginia University Press, 1982), pp. 174-82.
The success of Chaucer's early translations from French cannot be attributed solely to his knack for finding the "mot juste" or to his "good ear" for English idiom. He drew on the native English poetic tradition for visual concreteness and…

David, Alfred.   James M. Dean and Christian Zacher, eds. The Idea of Medieval Literature: New Essays on Chaucer and Medieval Culture in Honor of Donald R. Howard (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1992), pp. 35-54.
Considers BD, ABC, Pity, and HF to be Chaucer's "Edwardian" poetry, produced when he was closely associated with the royal family--first with the households of Elizabeth of Ulster and her husband, Prince Lionel, and then with the king's household.

Herz, Judith Scherer.   Criticism 6.3 (1964): 212-24.
Explores the relationship between reality and romance in KnT, comparing the Tale's presentation of details and ideals with those found in Froissart's "Chronicle," and arguing that the Knight operates with the "assumptions of chronicle history" and…

Witlieb, Bernard L.   Notes and Queries 214 (1969): 250-51.
Suggests that the "Ovide Moralisé" (14.827-30) is the "probable source" of the reference to Elysium in TC 4.789-90.

Diller, Hans-Jürgen.   Nikolaus Ritt and Herbert Schendl, eds. Rethinking Middle English: Linguistic and Literary Approaches (New York and Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2005), pp. 110-24.
While six Middle English terms of emotion are in some measure coterminous - "onde," "affect," "mood," "spirit," "passioun," and "affeccioun" - only the latter two closely approximate modern usage. "Passioun" connotes a state of being acted upon;…

Provost, William.   Robert G. Benson and Susan J. Ridyard, eds. New Readings of Chaucer's Poetry (Rochester, N.Y., and Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2003), pp. 91-106.
The end of PF shows a flagging of spirits; the end of TC is complex and self-reflexive. Although several early poems indicate that Chaucer could not think of an ending or that he lost interest, ABC is notable as a return to the beginnings.

Childress, Diana.   North Haven, Conn. : Linnet, 2000.
An introduction to the social, political, and intellectual history of Chaucer's age, aimed at a general audience. Individual chapters pertain to fourteenth-century England and its relations with the Continent, social hierarchy, "cracks" in the social…

Barnes, John, producer.
Morrison, Theodore, collaborator.  
United States:] Encyclopedia Britannica Films, 1957. Also released in VHS and DVD. YouTube version available at https://www.youtube.com/live/vJEVRxYDJz0?app=desktop&t=262s; accessed June 28, 2024.
Brief introduction to Chaucer, his age, and his language, with samples in Middle English and modern translation, followed by a dramatization of adapted portions of GP and PardPT, in stylized modern English, prose and verse.

Takahashi, Genji.   Meiji Gakuin Review 380 (1985): 1-51.
Surveys several chapters of William Godwin's work that deal with Chaucer's England.

Hanawalt, Barbara A., ed.   Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1992.
Ten essays explore the intersection between history and literature in Chaucer's lifetime; issues of class, gender, and politics are recurrent concerns. One essay on literature and Richard II's court, two on Langland, one on medieval hunting, and one…

Elliott, Ralph W. V.   London: Andre Deutsche, 1974.
An introduction to Chaucer's pronunciation, grammar, and prosody, followed by an extensive analysis of his lexicon that considers aspects of his syntax, prose vocabulary, colloquial language, oaths, scientific diction, characterization through…

British Library.   London: British Library, n.d.
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…
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