The Learned and the lewed : studies in Chaucer and medieval literature / edited by Larry D. Benson.
| Other author | Benson, Larry D., 1929-2015 |
| Other author | Whiting, Bartlett Jere, 1904-1995. |
| Other author | Sundwall, McKay. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 1974. |
| Description | x, 405 pages : portrait ; 22 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Harvard English studies ; 5 Harvard English studies ; 5. ^A24032 |
| Contents | Bartlett Jere Whiting / David Staines -- Now (this), now (that) and BD 646 / Leger Brosnahan -- How Marcia lost her skin: a note on Chaucer's mythology / Alfred David -- The clerk of Venus: Chaucer and medieval romance / R.T. Lenaghan -- The image of paradise in the Merchant's tale / Kenneth A. Bleeth -- Chaucer's clerk as teacher / Robert Longsworth -- In search of Chaucer: the needed narrative / Christopher Brookhouse -- Speculation, intention, and the teaching of Chaucer / George F. Reinecke -- Chaucer's courtly love / Edmund Reiss -- The heart and the chain / John Leyerle -- The terror of the dark waters: a note on Virgilian and Beowulfian techniques / Alain Renoir -- The art of high prosaic seriousness: John Gower as didactic raconteur / Anthony E. Farnham -- A plea for the middle Scots / Florence H. Ridley -- F.J. Child and the ballad / James Reppert -- "When Adam delved ... ": contexts of a historic proverb / Albert B. Friedman -- The medieval Terence / Paul Theiner -- Christian form and Christian meaning in Halldórs páttr / Joseph Harris -- Reynard the fox and the manipulation of the popular proverb / Donald B. Sands -- Lydgate the hagiograpger as literary artist / James I. Miller, Jr. -- John Lydgate and the proverbial tiger / Elizabeth Walsh -- Teaching medieval drama as theatre / Stanley J. Kahrl -- How much was known of the Breton Lai in fourteenth century England? / John B. Beston -- Middle English Emare and the cloth worthily wrought / Mortimer J. Donovan -- Le Bone Florence of Rome: a Middle English adaptation of a French romance / Anne Thompson Lee -- The gest of Robin Hood revisited / J.B. Bessinger, Jr. -- "Honour & right" in Arthur of Little Britain / Alice B. Morgan -- A deliberate analogue of Fitt I of Thomas of Erceldoune / William Alfred -- The writings of Bartlett Jere Whiting / McKay Sundwall. |
| Local note | Little-110473 - $4.70 |
| General note | "Written for Bartlett Jere Whiting by his students." |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| LCCN | 74078719 |
| ISBN | 0674518853 |
| ISBN | 0674518888 (pbk.) |