Deligiorgis, Stavros.
George D. Economou, ed. Geoffrey Chaucer: A Collection of Original Articles (New York: McGraw Hill, 1976), pp. 129-41.
Chaucer used elements from linguistic to cosmological in raising CT to the anagogic level of symbolism (cf Frye's "Anatomy of Criticism"). Various tales illustrate this progression to anagogy.
Parkes, Malcolm, and Richard Beadle, intro.
Norman, Okla.: Pilgrim Books; Suffolk: Boydell and Brewer, 1981.
Among the earliest of the Chaucer manuscripts, Cambridge Library Gg.4.27, once lavishly illustrated but now mutilated, is nevertheless the most nearly complete and one of the most reliable of Chaucer manuscripts.
Prendergast, Thomas A.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015.
Studies the significance of "Poets' Corner" in Westminster Abbey as both a physical and a metaphorical literary space. Presents the history of Chaucer's importance as the "founding corpse of Poets' Corner" in discussion of how "political, moral, and…
Horsley, Katharine Frances.
Dissertation Absracts International 65 (2005): 3796A.
As part of a larger consideration of dream poems and medieval ritual, Horsley argues that Chaucer intended liturgical elements of LGWP to evoke saints' day ceremonies recorded in the Sarum Missal.
Benson, C. David.
C. David Benson and Elizabeth Robertson, eds. Chaucer's Religious Tales (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1990), pp. 137-44.
Not all of Chaucer's religious tales are alike. In MLT and ClT, Chaucer "transforms the same basic material into two radically different, though equally valid, varieties of religious poetry." A religious romance, MLT "employs great rhetorical…
Studies the Christian and Platonic underpinnings of romantic love in Renaissance drama and poetry, exploring its roots in courtly traditions, and distinguishing it from love depicted by Augustan, Romantic, and modern writers. A section on Chaucer…
Miller, Jacqueline T.
New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986.
Investigates the "interaction between literary authority and authorship" and "how writers negotiate the related demands for creative autonomy and authoritative sanction." The dream vision is a form "generated by the poet's search for but failure to…
Edwards, A. S. G.
Corinne Saunders, ed. A Companion to Medieval Poetry (Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010), pp. 520-37.
Edwards cites the "pivotal" nature of the 1532 publication of John Gower's "Confessio Amantis" and Chaucer's "Werkes" and explores "Chaucerian modes and language" in fifteenth-century poetry by Hoccleve, Lydgate, Dunbar, and Henryson--a "subject that…
Olson, Paul A.
Modern Language Quarterly 24 (1963): 227-36.
Argues that the "static portraiture" in MilT establishes "character traits precisely" for the main characters so that the plot may "punish" these traits and convey "comic moral justice." Explores connections between Carpenter John and Oswald the…
PF, an exercise in "rhetorical outdoing" and discovery, shows Chaucer generating "newe science" from the formal "topoi" of "auctores." The episodes of PF conform to Macrobian categories of fabulous narrative, but these are transformed to provide a…
Piper, William Bowman.
Texas Studies in Literature and Language 30 (1988): 478-95.
Comparison of Chaucer's NPT with Dryden's version reveals that Chaucer focused on individual human action while Dryden approached the tale through satire of human social conditions. The "human immediacy" of Chaucer's tale may be its outstanding…
Poetic truth cannot be confined by rigidly orthodox theories of literary criticism. D. W. Robertson, Jr.'s reading of ClT, for example, as a moral fable of "the duties of the Christian soul as it is tested by its Spouse" effectively inhibits any…
Hurley, Michael D., and Michael O'Neill.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Introduces the major forms of English poetry from lyric to dramatic monologue to sonnet to ballad and beyond, with recurrent references to Chaucer's role in their development (see index), and a sustained discussion of Chaucer and narrative poetry…
Cooper, Helen.
Brian Cummings and James Simpson, eds. Cultural Reformations: Medieval and Renaissance in Literary History (New York: Oxford University Press), pp. 361-78.
Cooper argues that, despite his own skepticism about fame, Chaucer was the "model of fame" in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century England. Comments on Chaucer's appeal to humanists, to Protestants, and to Catholics and on Chaucer's role as "father" of…
Hanning, Robert W.
Lois Ebin, ed. Vernacular Poetics in the Middle Ages (Kalamazoo: Western Michigan University Press, Medieval Institute Publications, 1984), pp. 1-32, esp. pt. 3, pp. 24-28.
Treats Alceste as Christian emblem of transformation in LGW.
Woods, Marjorie Curry.
I. D. McFarlane, ed. Acta Conventus Neo-Latini Sanctandreani: Proceedings of the Fifth International Congress of Neo-Latin Studies, St. Andrews 24 August to 1 September 1982 (Binghamton, N.Y.: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1986), pp. 617-26.
Suggests that both TC and CT conclude in accord with the medieval rhetorical principle of "digression." Identifies the device in medieval rhetoric tradition, particularly the "Poetria Nova" of Geoffrey of Vinsauf, and applies it briefly to the…
Kang, Ji-Soo.
Dissertation Abstracts International 55 (1994): 274A
Discusses tensions between disorder and coherence in the conclusions of "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," "Pearl," "Cleannes," and "Patience," contrasted to conclusions of works by Chaucer.
Hamilton, Christopher T.
Christian Scholar's Review 23 (1993): 145-58.
Chaucer's and Langland's depictions of clergy are rooted in the "biblical topos of contrastive portraits for emulation and rejection," reflecting the medieval belief that church reform depended on the renewal of the clergy. Chaucer's Parson and…
White, Beatrice.
In F. R. H. Du Boulay and Caroline M. Barron, eds. The Reign of Richard II: Essays in Honour of May McKisack (London: Athlone, 1971), pp. 58-74.
Surveys a wide range of representations of peasants and links with poverty in medieval poetry, with particular emphasis on works by Langland, Chaucer, and Gower, as well as a number of their near-contemporaries. Contrasts Langland's Piers with…
Bourgne, Florence.
Martine Yvernault and Sophie Cassagnes-Brouquet, eds. Poètes et artistes: La figure du créateur en europe au Moyen Âge et à la Renaissance (Limoges: Presses Universitaires de Limoges, 2007), pp. 185-204.
Drawing on BD, TC, and the Gawain poet, Bourgne studies the influence of architecture on poetry.
