Rex, Richard.
Richard Rex. "The Sins of Madame Eglentyne" and Other Essays on Chaucer (Newark, N.J.: University of Delaware Press; London: Associated University Presses, 1995), pp. 78-94.
Argues that the name Eglentyne ("rose") connoted sexual dalliance to Chaucer's audience. Fourteenth-century property records indicate affiliations between property owned by the priory at Stratford-at-Bow and the Bankside brothel, the Rose.
Mars is placed within Christian moral interpretation when Mars refers to lovers as fish caught on a hook. Asking why God made human love enticing, Mars inverts the "hierarchy of human and divine lovers." For him the love bait on the hook is not…
Backgrounds and sources for PF, HF, BD, NPT. Argues that Macrobius was less influential in later Middle Ages than Chaucer's references to him suggests.
Palmer, R. Barton, and Burt Kimmelman, eds.
Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2017.
Ten essays by various authors treat the impact and legacy of Guillaume de Machaut's works, especially "his judgment series" of poems, and the ways they influence writers from Chaucer and John Gower to Marcel Proust and Philip Roth. For four essays…
Calin, William.
Studies in the Literary Imagination 20 (1987): 9-22.
The French influence on Chaucer is undervalued. Machaut's "La Fonteinne amoureuse" provided the model for BD; his "Judgement dou Roy de Navarre" inspired LGWP; "Le voir dit" has a direct tie with ManT; ; "Le voir dit" and "La Fonteinne amoureuse"…
Calin, William.
R. Barton Palmer, ed. Chaucer's French Contemporaries: The Poetry/Poetics of Self and Tradition (New York: AMS Press, 1999), pp. 29-46
The most important source for Chaucer's BD is not Machaut's Jugement dou Roy de Behaingne but his Dit de la fonteinne; for LGWP, not the French "Marguerite poems" but Machaut's Jugement dou Roy de Navarre. Moreover, the belief that Chaucer drifted…
The French narrative poems of Machaut and Froissart reveal the source of the voice in Chaucer's early poems. Even though BD imitates the conventions of its French models, it shows how Chaucer adapted the conventions to his own use.
Robinson, Peter.
Joe Bray, Miriam Handley, and Anne C. Henry, eds. Ma(r)king the Text: The Presentation of Meaning on the Literary Page ( Aldershot, Hants; and Brookfield, Vt.: Ashgate, 2000), pp. 309-28.
Summarizes the strengths and weaknesses of TEI (Text Encoding Initiative) encoding for electronic texts in the humanities, advocating a middle ground between "realist" and "anti-realist" theories of what can and should be represented. Expresses…
Aloni, Gila.
Danielle Buschinger and Arlette Sancery, eds. Mélanges de langue, littérature et civilisation offerts à André Crépin à l'occasion de son quatre-vingtième anniversaire (Amiens: Presses du Centre d'Études Médiévales, Université de Picardie-Jules Verne, 2008), pp. 1-10.
Explores how Chaucer's reflections on maternity expose a relationship between Christianity and other religions in MLT.
Kim, Jae-Whan.
Journal of English Language and Literature (Korea) 44: 255-74, 1998.
Chaucer prompts his readers to recognize that the Wife of Bath misreads and adapts the authorities she confronts, reminding us that multiple meanings are everywhere possible. This deconstruction of meaning prompts deconstruction of the male/female…
Creekmore, Hubert, ed.
New York: Grove Press, 1959.
Anthologizes samples of Greek, Latin, Provençal, French, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, Welsh, Irish, Norse, Danish, Dutch, German, and Old and Middle English verse--generally in modern English translation--from the fifth to the fifteenth century. The…
Holsinger, Bruce.
Seth Lerer, ed. The Yale Companion to Chaucer (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2006), pp. 179-212.
Holsinger explores each of Chaucer's lyrics and short poems, explicating tensions of form and theme and explaining Chaucer's "cagey manipulation" of metrical and lyric conventions - English, French, and Italian. Rarely an inventor, Chaucer was a…
Nelson, Ingrid.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017.
Asserts that Chaucer's inset lyrics in TC and LGW have a "tactical" quality that gives them flexibility and contingency. In TC, Antigone's song, using both English practices and French and Italian sources, demonstrates "a tension between negotiation…
Delahoyde, Michael.
Brief Chronicles: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Authorship Studies 5 (2014): 69-100.
Tallies a number of specific "[i]nfluences, echoes, or borrowings from Chaucer in English poetic tradition as it developed between Henry Howard, earl of Surrey, and Shakespeare," mentioning familiar instances and adding ones previously unnoticed.…
Robertson, Elizabeth.
Julia Boffey and Christiania Whitehead, eds. Middle English Lyrics: New Readings of Short Poems (Cambridge: Brewer, 2018), pp. 174-88.
Argues that three lyric moments in Book II of TC (Antigone's song, the lay of the nightingale, and the dream of the eagle) "distil the complexity of Criseyde's
inner deliberations," show “how Criseyde's choice to love is inflected by the condition…
Boyar, Jenny.
Dissertation Abstracts International A78.01 (2016): n.p.
Traces "the creative potentials of technologies of memory in the rise of English lyric poetry," focusing on Chaucer and Thomas Wyatt, and including assessment of how "innovations of lyric form are introduced" in TC "at moments in which memory is most…
Haskell, Ann S.
English Symposium Papers 3 (1973): 1-45.
Characterizes medieval lyrics and various sub-genres by illustrative examples; then comments on several themes and topoi in Chaucer's lyrics and lyrical passages from his longer works.
Butterfield, Ardis.
Medium Aevum 60 (1991): 33-60.
Analyzes Chaucer's treatment of bereavement and its consolation, particularly in relation to the exploitation of lyric in French narratives (both dit and elegy).
Looks at Lydgate's Parisian poems with a focus on "Pilgrimage of the Life of Man." Aims to define and construct "virtual coteries" and identify connections between Lydgate's coteries and the poetry of Gower and Chaucer. Refers to Mel, ABC, Purse, and…
Lydgate's introduction of new critical terms and definitions--"enlumyn," "adourne," "enbelissche," "aureate," "goldyn," "sugrid," "rhetorik," and "elloquence"--shift poetry's emphasis from the variety and pleasure found in Chaucer's writings, to…
Edwards, A. S. G.
Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses 10 (1985): 175-82.
Early in his career Lydgate borrowed from Chaucer for particular effects: echoes of GP appear in "The Siege of Thebes." In his later career Lydgate tried to create a Latin-derived poetic language linked to Chaucer.
