Kaylor, Noel Harold, Jr.
Uwe Boker et al., eds. Of Remembraunce the Keye: Medieval Literature and Its Impact Through the Ages. Festschrift for Karl Heinz Goller on the Occasion of His 80th Birthday (Frankfurt am Main: Lang, 2004), pp. 17-45.
English translation of a German essay that was first published in 1969, assessing the narrative techniques, structure, characters, and major themes of TC.
Lynch, Kathryn L.
Chaucer Review 56, no. 2 (2021): 95–118.
Examines background of Katherine Lee Bates, author of "America the Beautiful," who was a medievalist before turning to poetry and American literary studies. Brings together her career as an Americanist and poet with her background as a medievalist,…
Wilson, Janet.
Literature and Aesthetics: The Journal of the Sydney Society of Literature and Aesthetics 27.1 (2017): 17-38.
Compares Katherine Mansfield's and Virginia Woolf's uses of personifications of Nature as a feature of their modernism, derived from their familiarity with medieval and Renaissance depictions of Nature as a goddess, including Chaucer's Nature in PF.…
Perry, Judy.
Foundations: Newsletter of the Foundation for Medieval Genealogy 1.2-3 (2003-2004): 122-31 and 164-74.
Perry documents the complex relationships among the Roets, Swynfords, Lancastrians, and Chaucer's family, rejecting speculation that Thomas Chaucer was the illegitimate son of John of Gaunt and commenting on the dowering of Elizabeth Chaucer at…
Powrie, Sarah.
Beth Lau and Greg Kucich, eds. Keats's Reading / Reading Keats: Essays in Memory of Jack Stillinger (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), pp. 129-51
Reviews Keats's "regular contact" with Chaucer's works and assesses TC as a "largely overlooked intertext" for "The Eve of St. Agnes" that illuminates "the creative tensions of St. Agnes and Keats's habits in reading medieval texts." Focuses on…
Owings, Frank N.,Jr.
Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 75 (1981): 147-55.
"The Works," edited by Speght (1598), sold in 1848 as part of Charles Lamb's library may be the same volume to which Keats refers in his letter of May 3(!), 1818. The copy at Lily Library of the University of Indiana is likely the one owned by Keats…
Traces Chaucer's reputation in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries and examines the impact of his works (including apocrypha) and reputation on the poetry of John Keats--structure and form, characterization, realism in balance with…
Argues that Keats marked the British Library copy of TC, once owned by Charles Cowden Clarke. The markings indicate Keats's concerns with burgeoning love and with Criseyde's character as developed in books 1-3, but they "do not provide definitive…
Way, Karen Grose.
Dissertation Abstracts International 47 (1987) 4082A.
Way studies Chaucer's "trouthe" as meaning both troth and truth, with consequent conflicts arising in his poetry. In TC, "trouthe" is kept by silence even when the "trouthe" is broken. Absolute troth keepers (Griselda, Virginia) suffer. Truth…
Lucas, Angela.
Brian Cosgrove, ed. Literature and the Supernatural: Essays for the Maynooth Bicentenary (Blackrock, Ireland: Columba, 1996), pp. 11-32.
Assesses FranT in light of the conventions of the genre of the Breton lay: prologue, setting, rash promise, magic, impossible task, love triangle, and love. According to Lucas, the distortion of these conventions indicates that the Franklin does not…
Anikst, Aleksandr Abramovich, ed.
Moscow: Gos. izdvo khudozh. litry, 1980.
Selection from CT in Russian poetic translation by Ivan Kashkin and O. B. Rumer, with Introduction and notes by A. Anikst. Miniature book in 9 cm., with nine b&w illustrations of the tales and a fold-out color depiction of the pilgrims in progress.
Translation of CT into Russian verse and prose (by Kashkin and Rumer, orginally published in 1946; again in 1973), with an introduction to Chaucer by Kashkin (1946), end-of-text notes by Kashkin and Popovoi, and color illustrations.
Frisian verse translation of PrPT. A WorldCat record indicates that this was first published in De strikel: Moannebled foar Fryslan (1970), an item not seen.
Solopova, Elizabeth, and Stuart D. Lee.
New York and Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Describes "key themes, texts, terminologies and methods" related to medieval English literature, divided into four sections: (1) Introductory Key Concepts; (2) Old English; (3) Middle English; and (4) Approaches, Theory and Practice. Recurrent…
Interrelated fictional narratives told in poetry and prose by travelers in modern Nigeria; modeled on CT, with an opening General Prologue and tales told by various vocational types, e.g., the Air-hostess, the Journalist, the Female Petrol Attendant,…
Steel, Karl.
Myra Seaman, Eileen A. Joy, and Nicola Masciandaro, eds. Dark Chaucer: An Assortment (Brooklyn, N. Y.: Punctum Books, 2012), pp. 151-60.
Explores Custance, Virginia, and Emelye as women who recognize they are characters in someone else's narratives. Also suggests that Chaucer was similarly constrained by his sources, leaving him too without freedom to be his own self.
