Geoffrey Chaucer: The Critical Heritage, Volume 2, 1837–1933 (The Collected Critical Heritage : Medieval Romance)

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
INTRODUCTION......Page 10
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE......Page 33
THE PRINCIPAL EDITIONS OF CHAUCER\'S \'WORKS\' UP TO 1933......Page 36
RALPH WALDO EMERSON, The identity of all minds, 1837, 1849 (1850), 1856......Page 42
RICHARD HENGIST HORNE, Translations, 1841......Page 45
HENRY DAVID THOREAU, Homely, innocent, childish Chaucer, 1843 (1849)......Page 59
\'CHRISTOPHER NORTH\' (John Wilson), The allegory of love, 1845......Page 67
SIR NICHOLAS HARRIS NICOLAS, A Life founded on documentary evidence, 1845......Page 75
JOHN HENRY LEIGH HUNT, Geniality, singing, 1846, 1855......Page 79
JAMES LORIMER, Chaucer is our Goethe, 1849......Page 97
WILLIAM WATKISS LLOYD, Chaucer\'s irony, 1856......Page 108
JOHN RUSKIN, Fimesis and other matters, 1856, 1865, 1870, 1873, 1876......Page 111
WALTER BAGEHOT, A healthy sagacious man of the world with a symmetrical mind, 1858......Page 117
UNKNOWN, Story, situation and beauty, 1859......Page 119
FRANCIS JAMES CHILD, Final -e, 1863 (1869)......Page 131
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR, Creatures like ourselves, 1863......Page 132
ALEXANDER SMITH, Chaucer the English Conservative, 1863......Page 134
FREDERICK DENISON MAURICE, Cordial affection for men and for nature, 1865......Page 135
\'MATTHEW BROWNE\' (William Brightly Rands), Chaucer the Laodicean, 1869......Page 137
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL, Sincere, tender, humane, 1870 (1871)......Page 140
STOPFORD A.BROOKE, Natural beauty, 1871......Page 158
FREDERICK JAMES FURNIVALL, Work at Chaucer, 1873......Page 176
JOHN WESLEY HALES, Pity and irony, 1873......Page 187
WILLIAM MINTO, The spirit of chivalry, 1876......Page 189
WILLIAM CYPLES, Incredible sentimentality, and the old wonder of sex, 1877......Page 197
ADOLPHUS WILLIAM WARD, Dramatist and novelist, 1879......Page 217
MATTHEW ARNOLD, Chaucer lacks seriousness, 1880......Page 225
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, Chaucer\'s scanning, 1880, 1881......Page 229
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE, The middle class, 1880, 1886......Page 231
WILLIAM MORRIS, Gentleman and happy child, 1888......Page 235
THOMAS RAYNSFORD LOUNSBURY, Chaucer avoids dull English seriousness, 1891......Page 236
WILLIAM PATON KER, The commonplace transformed, 1895......Page 242
F.J.SNELL, Chaucer is the most irresponsible of men, 1901......Page 269
SIR WALTER RALEIGH, Irony and simple good English, 1905 (1926)......Page 271
W.M.HART, Realism, unity and comic poetic justice, 1908......Page 277
GEORGE SAINTSBURY, Chaucer\'s humour, 1908......Page 289
JOHN WILLIAM MACKAIL, Daylight and romance, 1909......Page 294
WILLIAM WITHERLE LAWRENCE, To show it as it was, 1911......Page 308
GEORGE LYMAN KITTREDGE, A connected human comedy, 1912......Page 314
EZRA POUND, Chaucer should be on every man\'s shelf, 1914, 1918, 1927, 1934,......Page 338
HARRIET MONROE, Chaucer and Langland, 1915......Page 343
JOHN S.P.TATLOCK, Chaucer the Laodicean, 1916......Page 346
ALDOUS HUXLEY, In love with the inevitably material, 1920......Page 363
CAROLINE F.E.SPURGEON, Critics of Chaucer judge themselves not him, 1925......Page 376
VIRGINIA WOOLF, The morality of the novel, 1925......Page 386
JOHN MATTHEWS MANLY, From art to nature, 1926......Page 393
MARIO PRAZ, Chaucer the merchantman, 1927......Page 412
THOMAS FREDERICK TOUT, A prudent courtier, 1929......Page 439
WILLIAM EMPSON, The ambiguity of Chaucer, 1930......Page 451
JOHN LIVINGSTONE LOWES, A powerfully associative memory, 1930......Page 461
CLIVE STAPLES LEWIS, What Chaucer really did to \'Il Filostrato\', 1932......Page 477
GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON, Never a less typical poet, 1933......Page 495
THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT, Is Chaucer less serious than Wordsworth? 1933......Page 498
ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN, Sensitive fidelity to nature, 1933......Page 500
ROSEMOND TUVE. Chaucer and the seasons, 1933......Page 502
INDEX......Page 508