...Paul G. Ruggiers B. G. Koonce Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1966, 293 pp. $6.50; 52s. Copyright © 1968 by Duke University Press 1968 REVIEWS Chaucer and the Tradition of Fame: Symbolism in “The House of Fame.” By B. G. KOONCE. Princeton...

... and Dante: A &valuation (Norman, Okla.: Pilgrim Books, 1984), pp. 29-76. See also B. G. Koonce, Chaucer and the Tradition of Fame: Symbolism in “The House of Fame” (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1966), esp. pp. 81, 8488; and Piero Boitani, “What Dante Meant to Chaucer,” in Chaucer...

... continues to smile evermore, seeming to yield up her great truths to the sensitive inquirer. I can agree with Koonce when he says that the poem is an artistically and intellectually integrated design; but when he tells me in his closing paragraph that the shifting pageantry of the visible poem...

.... In that year articles in ELH (Koonce 1963 ) and Studies in English Literature, 1500–1900 (Columbus 1963 ) suggested that Defoe was in fact a skilled and conscious craftsman, capable of writing complex and ironic texts. Within half a dozen years Defoe was magically transformed into a Great Novelist...