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Cannon, Christopher.   Malden, Mass.: Polity, 2008.
Surveys the forms, topics, and contexts of Middle English writing, clarifying its construction from various literary traditions set against a number of social, economic, and political conditions. The discussion is divided into five broad categories…

Dalrymple, Roger, ed.   London : Blackwell, 2004.
An introduction to critical approaches to Middle English literature, featuring twenty-two reprinted examples of critical methods by various authors. Chapters include authorship; textual form; genre; language, style and rhetoric; allegory;…

Gray, Douglas.   Alan Deyermond, ed. A Century of British Medieval Studies (Oxford: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 2007), pp. 383-426.
Gray surveys the study of Middle English literature from the founding of the British Academy until the early twenty-first century, commenting on accomplishments of individual scholars up to World War II. He describes critical trends and how they…

Bennett, J. A. W. Edited and completed by Douglas Gray.   Oxford: Clarendon, 1986.
A comprehensive study of Middle English literature exclusive of Chaucer, valuable as a standard work on Chaucer's literary contexts.

Horobin, Simon.   Corinne Saunders, ed. A Companion to Medieval Poetry (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2010), pp. 181-95.
Comments on various aspects of dialect, diction, prestige, etc. in Middle English poetry, with many examples drawn from Chaucer's works.

Leahy, Conor.   Review of English Studies 70, no. 295 (2019): 527-49.
Assesses references and allusions to Middle English in poetry written by W. H. Auden between 1922 and 1930, including echoes of GP, MilT, and BD in “The Mill (Hempstead)” and “April in a Town,” and perhaps TC and NPT in “Troy Town.”

Furrow, Melissa (M.)   ELH 56 (1989): 1-18.
The rare pre-Chaucerian fabliaux in English display affinities with exempla, drama, and inverted romance. Critics have long pondered why no fabliau tradition in English exists; they hypothesize scribal prudery or loss of many texts. Considering the…

McIntosh, Angus, M. L. Samuels, and Margaret Laing.   Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1989.
Eighteen essays on dialects, scribes, transmission, word geography, and related topics. Only one essay has not been previously published: Margaret Laing's "Linguistic Profiles and Textual Criticism: The Translations by Richard Misyn of Rolle's…

Reed, Thomas L.,Jr.   Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, 1990.
A prominent feature of Middle English debate poetry from 1200 to 1450 is irresolution, a quality appreciated in the context of carnival laughter (Bakhtin). Reed rejects univocal interpretation through allegory or symbolism in favor of "experiential…

Gray, Douglas.   Thomas G. Duncan, ed. A Companion to the Middle English Lyric (Woodbridge, Suffolk, and Rochster, N.Y.: D. S. Brewer, 2005), pp. 120-49.
Sketches the French backgrounds and courtly functions of late medieval English lyrics, surveying representative samples from Chaucer, Gower, Hoccleve, Lydgate, Charles d'Orléans, Skelton, the Findern manuscript, and Humphrey Newton's collection.…

Marshall, Simone Celine.   Notes and Queries 264 (2019): 90-91.
Describes scholarly inattention to the Middle English texts of KnT, NPT, WBT, and The Flower and the Leaf in John Dryden's "Fables Ancient and Modern" (1700) "slightly edited" from Thomas Speght's 1598 edition. Observes that the texts are "the…

Bazire, Joyce,and David Mills,   Year's Work in English Studies 58 (1979): 107-23.
Discursive bibliography of Chaucer studies published in 1977.

Lawton, David A., ed.   Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell & Brewer, 1982.
Essays by various hands on contexts for the alliterative revival, metrical and historical backgrounds, sources, manuscripts, audience, and the poems themselves.

Shimogasa, Tokuji.   Hiroshima Studies in English Language and Literature 25 (1980): 13-28.
Several Middle English adverbs of affirmation ("ywis," "wytterly," "sikerly," and "verayment") found in many medieval romances and in many of Chaucer's works function primarily as words of elaboration.

Bredehoft, Thomas A.   ELN 43.2 (2005):14-18
In calling the GP Miller a "knarre," Chaucer probably draws on an iconographic tradition illustrated in a pilgrim badge depicting a boar playing a bagpipe and inscribed "Laet knorren."

Allen, Valerie, and Margaret Connolly.   Year's Work in English Studies 86 (2007): 279-309
A discursive bibliography of Chaucer studies for 2005, divided into four subcategories: general, CT, TC, and other works.

Allen, Valerie, and Margaret Connolly.   Year's Work in English Studies 85: 236-63, 2006.
A discursive bibliography of Chaucer studies for 2004, divided into four subcategories: general, CT, TC, and other works.

Rumsey, Lucinda.   Year's Work in English Studies 71 (1993): 235-51.
Discursive review of Chaucerian scholarship and research published in 1990.

McGavin, John J., and David Mills.   Year's Work in English Studies 68 (1990): 176-200.
Discursive review of Chaucerian scholarship and research published in 1987.

McGavin, John J., and David Mills.   Year's Work in English Studies 67 (1989): 169-93.
Discursive review of Chaucerian scholarship and research published in 1986.

Strohm, Paul, ed.   Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Twenty-nine essays by various authors, each essay with suggestions for further reading. The volume has three indices: Medieval Authors and Titles; Names; and Subject. It seeks "to avoid settled consensus in favour of unresolved debate, to prefer the…

Thompson, Karl F., ed.   New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1964.
Includes a selection from GP (ll. 1-719) and PardPT in J. U. Nicolson's modern English translation (1939), with a brief appreciative introduction.

Ogura, Mieko.   Lexicon 8 (1979): 1-15. [Iwasaki Linguistic Circle].
In view of Kiparsky's new theory (1977), we can show the differences of the metrical rules in the specific types of mismatches allowed in each of Chaucer's works. We can say that the constraints on mismatches became severer in an orderly way from…

Cowen, Janet M.   Derek Pearsall, ed. Manuscripts and Texts (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1987), pp. 26-33.
In editing Chaucer, the problem of the final "-e" can be resolved "in a conservative edition by retaining the spelling of the base manuscript and in a modernised edition by regularising it." Cowen and George Kane, editors of LGW (in progress), treat…

Baker, David, ed.   Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1996.
A symposium on English poetic meter. Robert Wallace proposes ten rules for clarifying discussion of meter, and fourteen writers critique the validity and utility of the propositions; Wallace responds in a final essay. Recurring concerns include the…
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