Geoffrey Chaucer

In Lady Campbell, with a Female Advocate, SF calls her first published work fatal: Go, fatal book, she writes, showing off her learning by modifying the Go, little book formula used by...

Epigraphs to particular poems quote Chaucer , Swift , Elizabeth Barrett , Elizabeth Bishop , Geoffrey Bateson , and (most frequently) Elizabeth Hardwick . The title-poem (called by a reviewer Kafka esque) exemplifies...

Phillip Herring calls Ryderessentially an autobiographical family chronicle in experimental form. In this highly allusive novel, DB imitates and parodies a wide range of literary styles, from Chaucer to nineteenth-century sentimental novels.

These novellas follow at more than one remove writers further back than Painter (Boccaccio , Matteo Bandello , Marguerite de Navarre , and Chaucer ) in refashioning and retelling traditional stories. Most dated back...

The prefatory poem To Her Book translates the traditional farewell from creator to creation (as written by Ovid and imitated by Chaucer , Robert Louis Stevenson , and others, and popularly called Go, little book...

More is represented as addressing Margaret alternatively as daughter Marget and mother Eve, implying that her attempts to persuade him to swear the oath that would save his life are analogous to Eve's...

The framework of a group of cultured people standing for different points of view and exchanging ideas owes something to Thomas Love Peacock 's Headlong Hall, 1816 (also set in Wales), but Williams is...

She writes often here about the landscape and plants at Steepletop, using them as a metaphor for life and joy and the past. The final piece included in her Selected Poems, 2003, a...

The central characters here are Jane Cleveland, a kindly and somewhat fey Oxford don, and Prudence Bates, Jane's former student and surrogate daughter. Jane's main preoccupation is matchmaking for Prudence: she likens herself not only...

Many of these tales are unequivocally charming for a modern reader, but not so Gaude Maria, a version of the story which Chaucer used for his Prioress's Tale, about a poor widow's pious...

The real new departure in this book is The Teacher's Tale. Cope's homage to Chaucer is clear in her fast-running, colloquial narrative and her clear moral scheme of enjoyment and freedom on one side...

JB 's true attitude to her own poetic vocation is hard to fathom. In An Expostulatory Epistle to Sir Richard Steele upon the Death of Mr. Addison she calls herself the meanest of the tuneful...

The story recalls that of Chaucer 's Wyf of Bath's Tale. A Scottish chieftain has three ugly daughters: his formidable wife makes him marry the ugliest of all to his defeated, handsome enemy, instead...

ES balances her story of love and adventure with the depiction of everyday life in a Scottish castle, including food, clothing, pastimes, heraldry, and chivalric tournaments, in the reign of Edward III . Her preface...

This sets out to explore the effects of various technological media on the novel genre. It begins with the apparent forcible entry into a story by Jane Austen of a great German contemporary of Austen:...