...Allen R. Benham Copyright © 1921 by Duke University Press 1921 Three Chaucer Studies Allen R. Benham The University of Washington I CHAUCER AND THE RENAISSANCE Every age has a philosophy of life, which reaches and af­ fects, in greater or less degree, the thought and action of all its members...

...George P. Wilson Copyright © 1926 by Duke University Press 1926 Chaucer and Oral Reading George P. Wilson Guilford College The purpose of this paper is to lay down some general principles and to discuss certain facts relating to these principles which will tend to establish the probability...

...P. F. Baum Geoffrey Chaucer of England . By Chute Marchette . New York : E. P. Dutton & Company, Inc. , 1946 . Pp. 347 . $3.75 . Copyright © 1946 by Duke University Press 1946 Rook Reviews 527 Walt Whitman Handbook. By Gay Wilson Allen. Chicago: Packard and Company, 1946...

...P. F. Baum Geoffrey Chaucer: Troilus and Criseyde . Edited by Warrington John . London : J. M. Dent & Sons, Ltd. ; New York : E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc. , [ 1953 ]. Pp. ix , 337 . (Everyman’s Library, 992.) $1.65 . Copyright © 1954 by Duke University Press 1954 166...

...P. F. Baum Medieval Skepticism and Chaucer . By Thomas Mary Edith Ph.D. New York : The William-Frederick Press , 1950 . Pp. 184 . $3.00 . Copyright © 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 Book Reviews 593 Mr. Mizener s biography, as is meet, has already brought on a rash...

...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...

...John H. Fisher Poetry and Crisis in the Age of Chaucer . By Muscatine Charles . Notre Dame : University of Notre Dame Press , 1972 ( University of Notre Dame Ward-Phillips Lectures in English Language and Literature, Volume 4 ). Pp. vii , 168 . $5.95 . Copyright © 1973 by Duke...

...Norman E. Eliason Chaucer Life-Records . Edited by Crow Martin M. Olson Clair C. . Oxford : Clarendon Press ; Austin : University of Texas Press , 1966 . Pp. xxvi , 629 . $15.00 . Copyright © 1967 by Duke University Press 1967 484 The South Atlantic Quarterly stances...

... of King Henry and Cardinal Wolsey. The argu­ ments against going to Court were no longer valid. In 1518 he announced his intention of entering the royal service. How badly he misjudged both the King and the Cardinal the world well knows. Herbert sugden English Poetry: The Main Currents from Chaucer...

...James I. Wimsatt Chaucer and the Imagery of Narrative: The First Five Canterbury Tales . By Kolve V. A. . Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press , 1984 . Pp. xiv , 551 . $39.50 . Copyright © 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 98 The South Atlantic Quarterly am...

...Paull F. Baum Copyright © 1950 by Duke University Press 1950 CHAUCER S NAUTICAL METAPHORS PAULL F. BAUM READERS of the Troilus have often noticed a series of nautical metaphors to give them a crude name in Book I and a diminishing number of them throughout the rest of the poem. And some have...

...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...

...Louise O. Fradenburg Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 Louise O. Fradenburg My Worldes Blisse : Chaucer s Tragedy of Fortune How can Chaucer s poetry help us think about domestic tragedy, a genre believed by its own practitioners to have appeared in the early eigh­ teenth...

...John H. Fisher Copyright © 1961 by Duke University Press 1961 John H. Fisher CHAUCER S HORSES Not only were horses necessary and ubiquitous in the Middle Ages, but they served as status symbols and touchstones of taste and character, much as automobiles do today. We might expect that a poet...

...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...

...Joseph Bentley Copyright © 1965 by Duke University Press 1965 Chaucer s Fatalistic Miller Joseph Bentley An housbande shal not been inquisityf Of Goddes pryvetee, nor of his wyf. There are no doubt many who consider the Miller s Tale little more than an obscene joke an extraordinarily well...

...C. N. Stavrou Copyright © 1957 by Duke University Press 1957 SOME IMPLICATIONS OF CHAUCER S IRONY C. N. Stavrou IRONY AND HUMOR require a high degree of intellectual maturity. The ironist or humorist must be a master of perspec­ tive. He must be able to see life steadily and to see it whole...

.... By Gordon Hall Gerould. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1952. Pp. 103. $2.00. Geoffrey Chaucer s Troilus and Criseyde: Rendered into Modern English Prose. By R. M. Lumiansky. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1952. Pp. xii, 217. $5.00. To his previous well-known and admired translations...

...David Lorenzo Boyd Copyright © 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 David Lorenzo Boyd Compilation as Commentary: Controlling Chaucer s Parliament of Fowls An authority has a wax nose, which means that it can be bent into taking on different meanings. [Auctoritas cereum habet nasum, id est...

... as late as Chaucer s time, the idealized knight of popular tradition in the brightest primary colors. Proud, loyal, fearless, yet also devout, magnanimous, humble, merciful, courteous, and cultured, these traditional literary wonders ride about the countryside, seemingly Chairman of the English Department...