The Canterbury Tales.

Author / Editor
Hoffman, Richard L.

Title
The Canterbury Tales.

Published
R. M. Lumiansky and Herschel Baker, eds. Critical Approaches to Six Major English Works: "Beowulf" through "Paradise Lost" (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1968). pp. 41-80.

Description
Describes scholarly accomplishments and critical trends in Chaucer studies between 1940 and 1968—editions, source-and-analogue studies, and psychological, theological, and philosophical approaches. Explores the concept of the doubleness in love (two Venuses, her two sons, Ovid's "twin Loves" and Augustinian "caritas" and "cupitas"), applying the concept analytically to KnT and commenting on it elsewhere in CT.

Contributor
Lumiansky, R.M., ed.
Baker, Herschel, ed.

Alternative Title
Six Major English Works: "Beowulf" through "Paradise Lost"

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism
Knight and His Tale
Canterbury Tales--General
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations