... frustrating. LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY WILLIAM J. COOPER, JR. Chaucer and the Imagery of Narrative: The First Five Canterbury Tales. By V. A. Kolve. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1984. Pp. xiv, 551. $39-50. In import as well as physical size, V. A. Kolve s book makes a major contri­ bution...

...Lee Patterson Copyright © 1987 by Duke University Press 1987 Lee Patterson No man his reson herde : Peasant Consciousness, Chaucer s Miller, and the Structure of the Canterbury Tales Aux yeux de l historien, la revolte agraire apparait aussi inseparable du regime seigneurial que, par exemple...

...Charles Moorman Copyright © 1965 by Duke University Press 1965 The Philosophical Knights of The Canterbury Tales Charles Moorman It is impossible to date with any precision the decline of chivalry. Even the most learned of its students disagree as to the time and place of its greatest...

...P. F. Baum Chaucer and the Canterbury Tales By Lawrence William Witherle . New York : Columbia University Press , 1950 . Pp. xi , 184 . $2.50 . Copyright © 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 Book Reviews 285 Chaucer and the Canterbury Tales By William Witherle Law­ rence...

...F. Elaine Penninger Copyright © 1964 by Duke University Press 1964 Chaucer s Knight s Tale and the Theme of Appearance and Reality in The Canterbury Tales F. Elaine Penninger Among the small body of opinions about the Knight s Tale with which the rational mind can scarcely argue...

...W. T. Laprade William Wake: Archbishop of Canterbury, 1657-1737 . By Sykes Norman . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1957 . Two volumes. Pp. xiii , 366 ; 289 . $15.00 . Copyright © 1958 by Duke University Press 1958 Book Reviews 387 local heroes are overpraised...

..., ideological, and spiritual dimensions (p. 78). That is, having framed his work with the idea of pilgrimage, Chaucer then violates our expectations by giv­ ing us the local, national pilgrimage to Canterbury instead of the Jerusalem pilgrimage; and then violates these expectations further by withholding...

... in the Cathedral would therefore seem to depend on Eliot s ability to create Thomas Becket s reality through dramatic communica­ tion. Yet toward the end of Part I Becket remains silent as the Women of Canterbury, the four Tempters, and the Priests speak in combined chorus, and during this silence occurs...

.... . . . Canterbury Tales ^Hie Miller s intrusion into the Canterbury tale-telling has always engendered at least one annotation, one bit of commentary. What is the Pilates voys in which he begins to cry?1 At least in the last century, most com­ mentators have agreed: the voice is that of the mystery-play Pilate...

...). That is, having framed his work with the idea of pilgrimage, Chaucer then violates our expectations by giv­ ing us the local, national pilgrimage to Canterbury instead of the Jerusalem pilgrimage; and then violates these expectations further by withholding local color and circumstantial detail (p. 79...

... pil­ grimage tradition on its head, it would be more accurate to say that the Canterbury Tales was part of a tradition of literary pilgrimage; and this is what Howard would have done well to focus on. Although he be­ lieves that the interiorization of pilgrimage took place only long after Chaucer (p...

... planning a motor trip in Canada. DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY GUY R. MACLEAN William Wake: Archbishop oj Canterbury, 1657-1737. By Norman Sykes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1957. Two vol­ umes. Pp. xiii, 366; 289. $15.00. William Wake, Archbishop of Canterbury, grew to manhood in one of the stormiest...

... Five Canterbury Tales. By V. A. Kolve. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1984. Pp. xiv, 551. $39-50. In import as well as physical size, V. A. Kolve s book makes a major contri­ bution to Chaucer scholarship, bringing to the reading of the poetry a great body of relevant symbolic art...

... of the master of the vineyard in the Pearl, mede and mercede in Piers Plowman, or the criticism of monks and friars in the Canterbury Tales. It proposes, instead, to ex­ plore how each poet s style is related to the crisis of the age (p. 14), and it concludes: In making our survey of three poets at the same...

... and contributed to the identification of strict prohibitions of Sunday recreations with Protestant rigorism, or puritan­ Never on a Sunday 351 ism, despite the support for such prohibitions expressed by the Archbishop of Canterbury and most of the bishops in England. The king responded prudently and allowed...

... of the Prioress, the tastes of the Monk, and the habits e Cf. Canterbury Tales, Prolog, II, 477-528. Three Chaucer Studies 335 of the Friar do not indicate any spiritual calling on their part: these people are what they are because it is a natural and very respectable thing to be religious. What is Chaucer s...

... was broad and Amer­ ican, not subtle or delicate or English. The ticket-holder s chief benefit had been a pleasant impression of the man himself. And Verity wrote to The Canterbury Times (Christchurch, Nov. 14) from Dunedin, The special charm of novelty was annoyingly ab­ sent. Far more characteristic...

... to read and enjoy Chaucer s master­ piece, so long overshadowed by the Canterbury Tales. From the point of view of scholarship the Introduction leaves a good deal to be desired, but the side notes explaining the hard words and the footnotes render­ ing the more difficult passages are fully adequate...

.... 2 The verb is ubiquitous in The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde and fre­ quently signifies a type of control. See, for example, The Knight s Tale, line 2541, The Riverside Chaucer, ed. Larry D. Benson (Boston, 1987). 3 I am using compilation in a general sense to indicate any medieval...

... to a promising beginning. Each is attractively produced and (by current standards) reasonably priced. Forthcoming titles include The Waste Land (Grover Smith), Gulliver s Travels (J. Mezciens), Canterbury Tales (Elizabeth Salter), and Don Quixote (E. C. Riley). Ed. Bloody Ground. By John F. Day. Lexington...