Grennen, Joseph E.
Criticism: A Quarterly for Literature and the Arts 4 (1962): 225-40.
Identifies alchemical puns and their thematic/metaphoric potential in CYPT, focusing on "multiplie," "fire," and the figure of the "cosmic furnace" in 8.1407-8. Provides conceptual and contextual backgrounds from alchemical commentaries and suggests…
Identifies three aspects of NPT that differ from those found in its analogues ("Roman du Renart" and "Reinhart Fuch"), arguing that Chaunticleer' s belief in dreams, the frugal poverty of the widow, and the limited role of the fox produce a "shifting…
Evanoff, Alexander.
Brigham Young University Studies 4.3-4 (1962): 209-17.
Treats the Pardoner as a "foot-in-the-door salesman" who is confident in his own skills and believes that his "frankness is disarming." The "agonized sincerity" that George Lyman Kittredge perceived in lines PardT 6.916-18 is not "agonized" but…
Dunning, T. P.
Norman Davis and C. L. Wrenn, eds. English and Medieval Studies Presented to J. R. R. Tolkien on the Occasion of his Seventieth Birthday (New York: Humanities; London: Allen and Unwin, 1962), pp. 164-82.
Traces references to Christian, pagan, courtly, and Boethian love throughout TC, aligning them references to fate, Providence, and Fortune, and arguing that they lead in progressive fashion to the realization that Troilus's constancy mirrors divine…
Traces the development of Troilus' character in TC, arguing that he grows from ignorance to wisdom in confronting the "fundamental mystery of the human condition": his noble, "tragic error . . . is to have tried to love a human being with an ideal…
Assesses the "aesthetic status" of RvT, gauging its "crude vulgarity" in relation to its "moral coherence" where social/sexual pretentions are punished commensurately. Argues that Malyne is "notably pathetic," that the parson is the "evil genius of…
Clogan, Paul Maurice
Dissertation Abstracts International 22.10 (1962): 3641.
Studies the "form in which Chaucer may have known Statius' poetry," focusing on "medieval glossed manuscripts" in order to identify correspondences between the poetry of Statius, commentaries on it, and Chaucer's works. Assesses the status of Statius…
Cawley, A. C.
Review of English Literature 3.2 (1962): 9-19.
Compares HF and Alexander Pope's adaptation of it, "Temple of Fame," focusing on their uses and meanings of the word "fame." Surveys Chaucer's uses of "fame" in his corpus, and traces the rise and fall of its meanings in HF, from rumor to renown and…
Brooks, Harold Fletcher.
London: Methuen; New York: Barnes & Noble, 1962.
Assesses the aesthetic success of the techniques and devices used to characterize and arrange the pilgrims in GP, treating them in "five successive groups" and commenting on degrees of naturalism, pairings, significant details, and various "gamuts in…
Bennett, J. A. W.
Review of English Studies 13.51 (1962): 283.
Suggests that "gonne" rather than "goune" is the correct reading in "O mosy Quince," a lyric ascribed to Chaucer in Cambridge, Trinity College MS 3.19 (no. 49); supports the reading by identifying St. Barbara, cited in the poem, as "patron saint of…
Baldwin, R. G.
Journal of English and Germanic Philology 61 (1962): 232-43.
Considers the implications of treating the Canon (CYP and CYT, Part I) and the canon (CYT, Part II) as the same character, exploring the unity of the prologue and parts, and assessing the characterization of the canon(s), the Canon's Yeoman, and his…
Baker, Donald C.
Studies in Philology 59 (1962): 631-40.
Treats the theme of "gentilesse" in ClT as a response to its presence in WBT, arguing that it helps to characterize the Clerk, underlies Walter's decisions, and encouraged Chaucer to choose "precisely this legend for exactly this spot" in CT.…
Rejects claims that Criseyde expected to surrender herself to Troilus when she went to Pandarus's house in Book 3 of TC. Examines questions of plot, detail, and emphasis, and argues that her actions were neither fated nor dependent upon prior…
Allen, Charles A., and George D. Stephens, eds.
Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1962.
Anthologizes theoretical essays and illustrative examples of literary satire drawn from the ancients through the moderns. Designed for classroom use, with a glossary of terms, a bibliography of suggestions for further study, and an index. Includes…
Adams, George Roy.
Dissertation Abstracts International 22.07 (1962): 2382.
Examines Chaucer's use of first-person narration, "traditional themes," "rhetorical principles," and "artistic structure" in GP, exploring the pilgrimage and spring motifs, the chain of being, and connections between this chain, the serial…
Liebman, Arthur, ed.
New York: Richards Rosen, 1975.
An anthology of eighteen examples of short crime fiction, arranged chronologically from Chaucer to Ray Bradbury, with a general Introduction and brief comments introducing the tales. Includes PardT (pp. 3-12) in the prose translation of R. M.…
Sherwin, Michael S.
New Blackfriars 94 (2013): 456-74.
Compares the depictions and analyses of love in TC, Annie Dillard's "The Maytrees" (2007), Thomas Aquinas, and modern psychologies of love, arguing that their underlying concerns with conflicts between passions and choices indicate that sustained…
Nakayasu, Minako.
Studia Anglica Posnaniensia 46.4 (2011): 73-96.
Analyzes the 125 instances of the modals “shall” and “will” in GP, KnT, and WBPT in their “syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic aspects,” gauging degrees of modality, contingency, futurity, grammaticalization, speech-act functions (e.g., prediction,…
Wood, Chauncey Derby.
Dissertation Abstracts International 25.05 (1963): 2970.
Examines the astrological passages in Chaucer's works, not only the technical details but the their mythographic and iconographic implications. Includes discussion of Astr, Mars, GP, WBP, MerT, MLT, and ParsP.
Assesses the point of view of the "Narrator" of TC, particularly the ironic combination of detachment and involvement established in the openings of the five books and in the epilogue of the poem.
Severs, J. Burke.
Mediaeval Studies 25 (1963): 355-62.
Locates in Old French love poems sources for various aspects of BD, citing previously unnoticed parallels with passages from Guillaume de Machaut and Jean Froissart, and arguing that similar parallels and the "general situation and conduct" of…
