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Compares and contrasts the rapist-knight of WBT with his analogous protagonist in John Gower's "Tale of Florent," arguing that Chaucer's knight "emerges as a very clear and a very strong character"--the "kind of young fellow who can commit rape and…

Suggests that the physiological detail of her "kamuse nose" (RvT 1.3974) helps to characterize Malyne as "sexually attractive and promising."

A discursive review of Chaucerian scholarship and research published in 1952.

Offers an analogue to the Miller's breaking doors with his head (GP 1.551) in one of John Trevisa's additions to his 1387 translation of Ranulf Higden's "Polychronicon."

Identifies a previously unnoticed--and apparently spurious--attribution of a proverb to Chaucer in Edmund Southerne's "A Treatise Concerning the Right Use and Ordering of Bees" (1593).

Offers advice to modern readers on how to read Chaucer--and what to read of his works--as preparation for appreciating Middle English verse more generally, emphasizing his "civilized delicacy" and his variety while surveying his works. Then surveys…

Appreciative interpretation of NPT, with attention to its stylistic dexterity, subtle ironies, and thematic range.

Anatomizes Middle English poetry, with fourteen essays by various authors on various literary topics (one on architecture by Nikolaus Pevsner), selections from Middle English verse, brief lives of the writers, suggestions for further readings, and a…

Capacious encyclopedia of international names--people, places, books, fictional characters, etc., with various appendices. Includes an entry for Chaucer (1:917), who is also cited in more than 100 other entries. Entries are unsigned, but Robert R.…

Indexes the proverbs of Serlo of Wilton ("Prouerbia Magistri Serlonis") in Anglo-Norman, English, and Latin, evidently collected for pedagogical use, ca. 1150-1170. Includes 108 proverbs attributed to Serlo, with an additional five unattributed in…

Additions, corrections, and refinements of previous study by Magoun: Chaucer's Ancient and Biblical World. Mediaeval Studies 15 (1953): 107-36.

Alphabetical gazetteer of "names in Great Britain. mainly England" found in Chaucer's works. Entries include modern equivalents, Chaucerian forms, and explanations of references and allusions in his works to sites and locales.

An essay in two parts on Chaucer's "modernity," that is, on his development of a self-conscious vision of poetry. The first part surveys praise by critics and poets of Chaucer's vison and poetic career; the second, aspects of his works--humor, drama,…

Item not seen. WorldCat record indicates this is a translation of ClT into Ewe.

In Polish. Title translated into English: "Troilus and Cressida by Shakespeare and Chaucer--Metaphorical Language in the Light of Social Change." Shows how socio-economic differences are reflected in Chaucer's and Shakespeare's imgaery and diction.

Item not seen. Summary from WorldCat record: "Presents photographs of the original Ellesmere manuscript, contemporary figurines, and minature [sic] replica backgrounds accompanied by music in the idiom of the fourteenth century, and excerpts from the…

Item not seen. WorldCat records indicate that this edition of GP includes notes and an introduction.

Item not seeen. WorldCat records indicate that this Chinese translation of CT was reprinted multiple times.

Describes Chaucer's rhetoric and style in CT, exploring his orchestration of narrative economy, climax, pace (especially in relation to rhyme and meter), and verisimilitude, Identifies "flaws" in SumT and PhyT, and admires the symbolic…

Explores and explains rhetorical emphases in the narrator's growth in understanding of the Black Knight's loss in BD, arguing that full realization comes (in ll. 1309-10) only after it "had been subordinated first by confusion and then by…

Connects the use of "In principio" in the GP description of the Friar (1.254) with WBP 3.857-81, citing evidence from a wide array of material to show that the phrase, derived from the Gospel of John, evokes a "well-known apotropaic formula"…

Surveys Astr to identify Chaucer's "teaching method," finding evidence of his attention to teaching "technically-minded small boys" that clashes at times with concern for a wider audience. Considers Astr to be "a dull, intentionally prolix but…

Defends the thematic and dramatic unity of ManP and ManT, identifying similarities with other examples of such unity in the CT.

Clarifies nuances of the title "shipman" and the seriousness of the Shipman's lack of conscience about his cargo (GP 1.396-98) in light of late-medieval English maritime law.

Recognizes the influence of the Prioress's table manners (GP 1.128-35) in a description of the nuns of the Nonnester convent in the first part of Sigrid Undset's "Kristen Lavransdattir" trilogy and observes other quotations of and references to…