ENGL 452
This course involves reading and interpretation of the chief poetry of Geoffrey Chaucer.
Library of Congress Classification Ranges
Find books in the library within these call number ranges:
- PN661-694 Medieval (to 1500)
- PR1-9680 English Literature
- PR251-369 English Literature -- By period -- Medieval. Middle English (1066-1500)
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PR1803-2165 English Literature -- Anglo-Norman period. Early English. Middle
- PR500-614 English Literature -- Poetry
Library of Congress Subject Headings
Try searching the library catalog or databases with some of these terms (or come up with your own keywords and synonyms of these):
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Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400
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Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400. Canterbury tales
- Poets, English -- MIddle English, 1100-1500
- Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages -- Canterbury -- England -- Poetry
- Tales, Medieval
Other LibGuides
- Medieval, Renaissance & Reformation Research GuideFor more sources relating to the time period Chaucer lived and wrote in, see this LibGuide.
Websites
- Chaucer MetapageThis project was initiated at the 33rd International Congress of Medieval Studies by a group of medievalists interested in promoting Chaucer studies on the internet.
- Geoffrey Chaucer WebsiteA website maintained by Harvard.
- New Chaucer SocietyA forum for teachers and scholars of Geoffrey Chaucer and his age
Databases (Find Articles)
Reference Books
Medieval England by Call Number: EWU-Cheney Main Level Reference DA129 .M43 1998ISBN: 9780824057862Publication Date: 1998-05-01This valuable reference work offers concise, expert answers to questions on all aspects of life and culture in medieval England.
Print Books
The Canterbury Tales by Call Number: EWU-Cheney Upper Level Book Stacks PR1867 .K65 2005ISBN: 9780393925876Publication Date: 2005-05-17Each is presented in the original language, with normalized spelling and substantial annotations for modern readers. Among the new added to the Second Edition are the much-requested "Merchant's Tale" and the "Tale of Sir Thopas." "Sources and Backgrounds" are included for the General Prologue and for most of the tales, enabling students to understand The Canterbury Tales in light of relevant medieval ideas and attitudes and inviting comparison between Chaucer's work and his sources. "Criticism" includes nine essays, four of them new to this edition, by leading Chaucerians, among them F. R. H. DuBoulay, E. Talbot Donaldson, Barbara Nolani, and Lee Patterson. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.
Chaucer's Poetry by Call Number: EWU-Cheney Upper Level Book Stacks PR1852 .D6 1975ISBN: 9780673156679Publication Date: 1998-01-13PART I. POETRY. II. COMMENTARY. Bibliography. Glossary.
Chaucer's Tale by Call Number: EWU-Cheney Upper Level Book Stacks PR1905 .S77 2014bISBN: 9780143127833Publication Date: 2015-10-27In this highly accessible social history, Paul Strohm, one of the finest medievalists of our time, vividly recreates the bustle of everyday life in fourteenth-century London while he unveils the fascinating story behind Chaucer's journey from personal crisis to rebirth as the immortal poet of The Canterbury Tales.- The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer by Call Number: EWU-Cheney Upper Level Book Stacks PR1851 .S5 1894Publication Date: 1894-97
- The Text of the Canterbury Tales, Studied on the Basis of all Known Manuscripts by Call Number: EWU-Cheney Upper Level Book Stacks PR1874 .M35Publication Date: 1940
The Riverside Chaucer by Call Number: EWU-Cheney Upper Level Book Stacks PR1851 .B46 1987ISBN: 0395290317Publication Date: 1986-12-12This edition provides the general information on Chaucer's life, language, and works that one needs for a first reading of Chaucer, and difficult words and constructions are glossed on the pages. The Appendix contains the materials, including the extensive notes and glossary, for a more thorough understanding of Chaucer's works.
The Cambridge Companion to Chaucer by Call Number: EWU-Cheney Upper Level Book Stacks PR1924 .C28 2003ISBN: 0521815568Publication Date: 2004-01-19This revised edition is based on the first edition which has become a classic in Chaucer studies. Important material has been updated in the text, and its contributions cover recent trends in literary theory as well as in studies of Chaucer's works. The bibliography has been completely revised to provide an indispensable guide for today's student of Chaucer.- The Life of Geoffrey Chaucer by Call Number: EWU-Cheney Upper Level Book Stacks PR1905 .P43 1992ISBN: 1557862052Publication Date: 1992-10-01
Chaucer - a European Life by Call Number: EWU-Cheney Upper Level Book Stacks PR1906.5 .T87 2019ISBN: 9780691160092Publication Date: 2019-04-09More than any other canonical English writer, Geoffrey Chaucer lived and worked at the centre of political life--yet his poems are anything but conventional. Edgy, complicated, and often dark, they reflect a conflicted world, and their astonishing diversity and innovative language earned Chaucer renown as the father of English literature.
eBooks
The Canterbury Tales by Call Number: Online Access via ProQuest Ebook Central Academic CompletePublication Date: 1998-07-09David Wright's new translation of The Canterbury Tales into modern verse--the first to appear in over thirty years--makes one of the greatest works of English literature accessible to all readers while preserving the wit and vivacity of Chaucer's original text.
Tellers, Tales, and Translation in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales by Call Number: Online Access via Oxford University Press EbooksPublication Date: 2016-01-26Readers of the Canterbury Tales have always marvelled at the spirited interplay among the pilgrims and the manner in which the stories they tell seem to fit their characters. In Tellers, Tales, and Translation Warren Ginsberg argues that Chaucer often recast a coordinating idea or set of concerns in the portraits, prologues, tales, and epilogues that make up a 'Canterbury' performance. For the Clerk, the idea is transition, for the Merchant it isrevision and reticence, for the Miller it is repetition, for the Franklin it is interruption and elision, for the Wife of Bath it is self-authorship, for the Pardoner it is misdirection and subversion.- Five Hundred Years of Chaucer Criticism and Allusion, 1357-1900 by Call Number: Online Open Access via HathiTrustPublication Date: 1960
- A Companion to Chaucer by Call Number: Online Access via ProQuest Ebook Central Academic CompletePublication Date: 2000
Journals
- Chaucer ReviewEWU-Cheney Main Level Periodical PR1901 .C48
- Chaucer SocietyChaucer Society original publications