Category: Chaucer scholars

The first, composed in the 14th century, is from Chaucer and if, as some scholars believe, it is one of his earliest poems, then it is possibly the first manifestation of the form in English.

But some scholars contest this grouping, first proposed by Chaucer scholar Eleanor Prescott Hammond and subsequently elaborated by George Lyman Kittredge, not least because the later tales of Melibee and the Nun's Priest also discuss this theme.

Chaucer presumably never finished the Cook's Tale and it breaks off after 58 lines, although some scholars argue that Chaucer instead deliberately left the tale unfinished.

Although some scholars are reluctant to say that Chaucer ever read the Decameron, Chaucer's story is very close to one told in Day IX, Tale 6 of that set of Italian tales, in which two clerks lodge with a innkeeper for the night.

The Hengwrt Chaucer has been in Wales for at least 400 years, and recent research by English scholars suggests that Chaucer himself may have partly supervised the making of the manuscript, before his death in October 1400, according to the Welsh newspaper The Western Mail.

Many Chaucer scholars regard it as the poet's finest work.

Category: Chaucer scholars

Category: Chaucer scholars

Category: Chaucer scholars

It is believed it was one of the last tales to be written and it seems to many scholars such a lively attack on alchemists that Chaucer must have had a real person in mind.

Ewald Flügel, a German scholar who had moved from Leipzig to Stanford University, praised him as the " librarian of librarians ," and Bernhard ten Brink, first chair of English Philology in Germany, called him " the most thorough " of " all living Chaucer scholars.

Category: Chaucer scholars

Category: Chaucer scholars

Category: Chaucer scholars

Found within Consolation are themes that have echoed throughout the Western canon: the female figure of wisdom that informs Dante, the ascent through the layered universe that is shared with Milton, the reconciliation of opposing forces that find their way into Chaucer in The Knight's Tale, and the Wheel of Fortune so popular throughout the Middle Ages.

Structurally, the collection resembles The Decameron, which Chaucer may have read during his first diplomatic mission to Italy in 1372.

Also, while Chaucer clearly states the addressees of many of his poems ( the Book of the Duchess is believed to have been written for John of Gaunt on the occasion of his wife's death in 1368 ), the intended audience of The Canterbury Tales is more difficult to determine.

* The tales of King Midas have been told by many with some variations: by John Dryden ; by Geoffrey Chaucer in the Wife of Bath's Tale ; making Midas ' queen the betrayer of the secret ( as Midas ' wife, Aristotle names Demodike ( or Hermodike ) of Kyme ; Eudemus fr.

Critics of this view argue that Oxford nor any other writer is not here identified as a concealed writer, but as the first in a list of known modern writers whose works have already been " made public ", " of which number is first " Oxford, adding to the publicly acknowledged literary tradition dating back to Geoffrey Chaucer.

Notable narrative poets have included Ovid, Dante, Juan Ruiz, Chaucer, William Langland, Luís de Camões, Shakespeare, Alexander Pope, Robert Burns, Fernando de Rojas, Adam Mickiewicz, Alexander Pushkin, Edgar Allan Poe and Alfred Tennyson.

Ockham and his works have been discussed as a possible influence on several late medieval literary figures and works, especially Geoffrey Chaucer, but also Jean Molinet, the Gawain Poet, François Rabelais, John Skelton, Julian of Norwich, the York and Townely Plays, and Renaissance romances.

Some 20th-century historians have questioned these medieval accounts, claiming that references to St. Valentine are very scanty in old historical records and many of the accounts of the life of the saint appear to have originated with Geoffrey Chaucer.

In Shakespeare's own lifetime, a writer known for doing likewise was Matteo Bandello, who based his work on that of writers such as Giovanni Boccaccio and Geoffrey Chaucer, and who could have served as an indirect source for Shakespeare.

While elements of Chaucer and Boccaccio have a picaresque feel and are likely to have contributed to the style, the modern picaresque begins with Lazarillo de Tormes, which was published anonymously in Antwerp and Spain in 1554.

In the film's actor / director DVD commentary, Brian Helgeland, co-commentating with Paul Bettany, states that the film was intended to have occurred sometime in the 1370s during a six-month period in which Chaucer had apparently gone missing and show what he might have done during this time, which Helgeland says later on in the commentary inspired Chaucer to write his Canterbury Tales.

Chaucer also threatens two men he meets in the film with undying humiliation through fiction ; these characters seem to have inspired the vitriolic descriptions of the Tales ' Pardoner and Summoner.

A medieval variation is alluded to in Geoffrey Chaucer ’ s Canterbury Tales at the beginning of the “ Knight ’ s Tale ,” where it says: “ Certainly, if it were not too lengthy to listen to, I would have told you fully how the realm of Scythia was conquered by Theseus and his knights ; of the great battle on that occasion between the Athenians and the Amazons ; how Hippolyta, the fair, brave queen of Scythia, was besieged ; of the feast at their wedding ; and of the tempest at their home-coming .”

He occasionally shows the influence of Chaucer, and is said to have known Latin and French.

Chaucer, Caxton, and the Coverdale Bible use " ax "; Shakespeare and the King James Bible have " ask ".

She is likely the Elizabeth Chaucer who, along with a Margaret Swynford, was nominated a nun by royal privilege at the accession of Richard II in 1377, thus she may have been born as early as 1364.

She may have been a nun in Barking Abbey ; there are records of an “ Elizabeth Chausier ” and her nickname being “ Chaucy ” “ Chaucer, Geoffrey .” Encyclopædia Britannica.

The richest of Tipton speech is very similar to that which Shakespeare, or even Chaucer, would have spoken.

It has also been speculated that Geoffrey Chaucer may have alluded to Philippa in his poem, “ The Legend of Good Women ,” through the character, Alceste.

The by-law also prescribes the university's motto, taken from Chaucer: ' And gladly teche '.

Panfilo's tale comes from Jean Bodel's fabliau " Gombert et les deus Clers ," a story also used by Chaucer for The Reeve's Tale.

Geoffrey Chaucer also did much to popularize this view among speakers of English with his Canterbury Tales ( Wife of Bath's Prologue, v. 117-118 )

For instance, the ceremony for conjuring a horse closely relates to the Arabic One Thousand and One Nights and French romances ; Chaucer ’ s The Squire's Tale also bears marked similarities.

For example, according to The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, Noah ’ s wife was just such an individual ("" Hastow nought herd ", quod Nicholas, " also / The sorwe of Noë with his felaschippe / That he had or he gat his wyf to schipe ""; The Miller ’ s Tale, l. 352 – 354 ).

While Wyatt's poetry reflects classical and Italian models, he also admired the work of Chaucer and his vocabulary reflects Chaucer ’ s ( for example, his use of Chaucer ’ s word newfangleness, meaning fickle, in They flee from me that sometime did me seek ).

He appears not only in Dante, but also in Chaucer and to a large degree in Petrarch, who adopted his style in his own essays and who quotes him more than any other authority except Virgil.

The Chaucer College group also includes Kingsgate College, near Broadstairs, which dates from the turn of the twentieth century and welcomes Japanese High School students.

Caxton also printed the works of Chaucer and Gower and these books helped establish the idea of a native poetic tradition that was linked to its European counterparts.

The Ploughman's Tale was printed more and over a longer period of time than Piers Plowman ; it was also printed as a Chaucerian text and included in many editions of Chaucer and mentioned as a familiar text in Foxe's Book of Martyrs.

Spenser liberally borrows from The Ploughman's Tale in The Shepheardes Calendar, also attributing it to Chaucer.

Gower's friendship with Chaucer is also well documented.

The two poets also paid one another compliments in their verse: Chaucer dedicated his Troilus and Criseyde in part to " moral Gower ", and Gower reciprocated by placing a speech in praise of Chaucer in the mouth of Venus at the end of the Confessio Amantis.

However, it is recorded that Lewis was born in 1381 and sent to the school at Oxford at age 10 ; it is also known that Chaucer ’ s “ Treatise on the Astrolabe ” was written for Lewis.

In 1386 Chaucer used the Parson's Tale to poke fun at geomancy in Canterbury Tales: " What say we of them that believe in divynailes as … geomancie …" Shakespeare and Ben Jonson were also known to use geomancy for comic relief.

There are also two associate colleges: Chaucer and Wye.

Additions to the previously published works of Chaucer were twice made through Stow's " own painful labours " in the edition of 1561, referred to above, and also in 1597.

The phonological phenomena that obscure the rhymes of Chaucer only 600 years after his death, are also to be found in Biblical Hebrew texts which spanned a millennium.

Chaucer also used Bayard in the Canterbury Tales ( c. 1286 ) to denote a randy stud in the Reeve's Tale and a blind, foolish horse in The Canon's Yeoman's Tale: " Though ye prolle ay, ye shul it nevere fynde.