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GEOFFREY CHAUCER - LoveToKnow Article on GEOFFREY CHAUCER

While our knowledge of Chaucers Romaunt of the Rose is in this unsatisfactory state, another translation of his from the French, the Book of the Lyon (alluded to in the Retraction found, in.
We know from Chaucer himself that he translated this poem, and the extant English fragment of 7698 lines was generally assigned to him from I 532, when it was first printed, till its authorship was challenged in the early years of the Chaucer Society.
The occurrence of some magnificent lines in Chaucers version, combined with evidence that he did not yet possess the skill to translate at all literally as soon as rhymes had to be considered, accounts for this poem having been dated sometimes earlier than the Book of the Duchesse, and sometimes several years later.

http://www.1911ency.org/C/CH/CHAUCER_GEOFFREY.htm (3617 words)



British Literarture I - Study Guides

Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, The Prioresss Tale, The Pardoners Prologue and Tale, Chaucers Retraction (Handout)
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, The Wife of Baths Prologue and Tale, The Clerks Tale, The Merchants Tale, The Franklins Tale
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, The Knights Tale, The Millers Tale

http://faculty.necc.mass.edu/gbailey/britguides.htm (271 words)



Canterbury Tales Background

Know what is meant by Chaucer's "Retraction." Be sure to read Introduction to the Parson's Tale and the Retraction both in translation (CH 339-342) and in Middle English (NA 310-13).
Reread the general background information NA 10-12 (on the Fourteenth Century), 15-18 (aids to reading Chaucer--also consult the handouts and linked websites), 20 (on Chaucerian verse), and 210-15 (Headnotes to Chaucer, the Canterbury Tales and the General Prologue); if necessary, consult NA A46-A52 for relevant literary terminology.
You are also responsible for the editor's note, NA 310-11, on the close of the Canterbury Tales;.

http://cla.calpoly.edu/~dschwart/engl512/ctbackground.html (647 words)



Chaucer's Retraction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Retractions, often called palinodes, were common in works of this era and the bawdy nature of some of Chaucer's works possibly needed forgiveness.
It is not even certain if the retraction was an integral part of the Canterbury Tales or if it was the equivalent of a death bed confession which became attached to this his most popular work.
It is not clear whether these are sincere declarations of remorse on Chaucer's part, a continuation of the theme of penitence from the Parson's Tale or simply a way to advertise the rest of his works.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaucer's_Retraction (294 words)



harris-1

Fragment IX: The Manciple's Prologue and Tale Fragment X: The Parson's Prologue and Tale, Chaucer's Retraction
Fragment III consist of the Wife of Bath's Tale, the Summoners Tale and the Friars Tale, which is exactly the same as The Riverside Chaucer.
When Derek Pearsall wrote an analysis on The Canterbury Tales he states, "it is by no means a necessary assumption that Chaucer began by writing the General prologue, nor that the General prologue as it stands in the manuscripts was what Chaucer originally wrote" (2).

http://beowulf.engl.uky.edu/~kiernan/ENG421/Reports/Reports-1/harris-1.htm (1705 words)



Spolia - Journal of medieval studies: The Digital facsimile of National Library of Wales Peniarth 392 D (Hengwrt Chaucer)

As Chaucer experts will need no reminding, the Hengwrt Chaucer is commonly regarded (together with the Ellesmere manuscript) as one of the most important sources for the text of the Tales.
Further, the title written on the first page (and just visible in the fraction of manuscript reproduced in the CNN report clearly labels this as 'Here begynneth the book of the tales of Canterbury' and the wording of the Ellesmere retraction confirms this.
This CD-ROM joins these images to the transcriptions of the text, collations with the other crucial early manuscript of the Tales(the Ellesmere Chaucer, in the Huntington Library), complete descriptions and analytical discussions to give a full set of materials for studying this manuscript.

http://www.spolia.it/online/it/argomenti/informatica_per_medioevo/2000/chaucer.htm (350 words)



chausyll

Parson's Prologue (1-74); 1st and last paragraphs of Parson's Tale; Chaucer's Retraction, p.
Intro to Pardoner&; Pardoner& Prologue and Tale; C.David Benson, “Chaucer& Pardoner: His Sexuality and Modern Critics”
General Prologue 43-360; E. Talbot Donaldson,“Chaucer the Pilgrim”

http://www.haverford.edu/engl/chaucer/chausyll.htm (137 words)



Old and Middle English tapes

Side 1: The General Prologue, through the Wife of Bath Side 2: General Prologue, Parson to the conclusion; Prologue to the Parson's Tale; Chaucer's retraction A07.16 Two Canterbury Tales--Chaucer, read in Middle English by J. Bessinger, Jr.
Beginning of General Prologue of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales 6.
Beginning of Prologue of A-text of Piers Ploughman 5.

http://languagelab.bh.indiana.edu/audio/a07.html (284 words)



Draf out of my Fest: Chaucer and the Lollards

While Chaucer distinguishes in his retraction between the sacred Boece and the profane Canterbury Tales, he offers a defense against Lollard condemnation of non-scriptural text with an appeal to scripture itself ("For oure book seith, al that is writen is writenFor our doctrine...") which suggests the possibility of valid Christian use of profane literature.
As to the question of Chaucer's Lollardry, it would probably be difficult to find an Englishman of any social class in the late fourteenth century who did not share some Lollard sympathies, whether rationalist theology or nationalist politics.
Lollardry throughout the poem is owing to the "close correspondence between Chaucer's

http://phoenixandturtle.net/excerptmill/sowing.htm (6042 words)



CONTEXT: Michael Bérubé

Then Chaucer writes his Retraction of all his works except his translations of Boethius and "othere bookes of legendes of seintes, and omelies, and moralitee, and devocioun." Then Chaucer dies, to live again in cyberspace.
We know how Chaucer ended his own poem, the poem that was supposed to crown his career: ironically, yet with piety.
That harder may be ended, then begonne." The end of the travel and long toil, it turns out, may not be the completion of your life's work, the poetic career you've patterned on that of Virgil as deliberately, as obsessively as Tiger Woods has plotted his career against that of Jack Nicklaus.

http://www.centerforbookculture.org/context/no5/berube.html (6042 words)



Style: Figuring subjectivity in 'Piers Plowman C' and 'The Parson's Tale' and 'Retraction': authorial insertion and identity poetics

Yet when we examine Piers C and the Parson's Tale and Retraction, we note several characteristics which Chaucer could most certainly have learned from the earlier work of Langland.
Whether or not Chaucer knew the C text of Piers, which includes the "autobiographical" fifth passus, cannot be established with any certainty.
Hypotheses about Chaucer's reading have always been at the forefront of scholarly debate.

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2342/is_n3_v31/ai_21240790 (1341 words)



Films Media Group - The English Romantic Poets—on CD-ROM

This CD-ROM contains modern, Middle English, and facsimile texts of the General Prologue, Chaucer's Retraction, and all 24 delightful tales, complete with char..
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http://www.ffhgroup.com/id/10982/The_English_Romantic_Poets-on_CD-ROM.htm (444 words)



Chaucer's General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales study questions

In this regard, it is interesting to note that the Parson's Tale and the Retraction together constitute the final "fragment" of the Canterbury Tales in every manuscript that preserves the full collection (see NA 214).
Make sure you have read the general background information NA 10-12 (on the Fourteenth Century), 20 (on Chaucerian verse), 210-15 (headnotes to Chaucer, the Canterbury Tales and the General Prologue), 310-11 (on the close of the Canterbury Tales) and 317-19 (headnote to William Langland, Piers Plowman).
Chaucer begins his General Prologue with an evocation of April, of birdsong and flowers, and of people who ALSO are in a state of longing.

http://cla.calpoly.edu/~dschwart/engl203/gp203.html (3304 words)



Will and the Law of Property

	In Chaucer's Parson's Tale, Retraction, and L's C.5, the authors engage in a homologue to confession by which they inscribe their identities in their texts and become themselves the subjects of poetic reflection.
Pigg, Daniel F. "Figuring Subjectivity in Piers Plowman C and ‘The Parson's Tale’ and ‘Retraction:’ Authorial Insertion and Identity Poetics." Style 31 (1997): 428-39.
The Plowman may be viewed as a secular shadow of the Christian ideals propounded by the unblemished Parson, not a fully formed character in himself, but the spiritual element of a character which may be adopted by any individual.

http://www.yls.cornell.edu/bib98.html (7768 words)



Part Time Jobs London

It is likely he wrote such a work; one suggestion is that the work was such a bad piece of writing it was lost, but if so, Chaucer would not have included it in the middle of his retraction.
Chaucer was buried in Westminster Abbey in London as was his right owing to the jobs he had performed and the new house he had leased nearby on 24 December 1399.
He told some of his critics that man's actions are the main cause of the behavior of their animals and he would show this in another short story.

http://www.copywriteireland.co.uk/Part-Time-Jobs-London.aspx (12207 words)



This research shows a gap hitherto greatly neglected

This topoi of modesty has a parallel in Chaucer's Retraction.
Las sententiae en Don Juan Manuel y Chaucer
Don Juan Manuel's El Conde Lucanor is a collection of tales and probably the greatest literary work of the Spanish litarature in the XIV century.

http://www.arrakis.es/~jlserrano/tesis.htm (12207 words)



Chaucer and Religion

We all agree, I suppose, that the Canterbury Tales begins with the General Prologue and ends with the Parson's Tale and Chaucer's Retraction.
There are quite a number of Tales, and the General Prologue itself is perhaps one of them, that are purely secular pictures of the 'way of the world.' The cunning, thieves and liars, seem to win out over their unsuspecting, or stupid victims, they even boast of it, and there is no certain justice.
With the notable exceptions of the Clerk and the Parson, all the Church-people have lives that seem to be more or less far removed from what might be expected in people of their calling; the Clerk is intensely serious at his studies, the Parson is said to be living in true Gospel style.

http://www.sogang.ac.kr/~anthony/Religion.htm (5182 words)



Syllabus

: Manciple's Prologue and Tale; Parson's Prologue and Tale [75-204; skim "the seven sins," 950- 2720; 3078-3146]; Chaucer's "Retraction."
: Miller's Prologue and Tale; Reeve's Prologue and Tale; Cook's Prologue and Tale.
: Friar's Prologue and Tale; Summoner's Prologue and Tale.

http://www.yu.edu/faculty/haahr/2315/syllabus.htm (629 words)



swikert-2

The Manciples Prologue and Tale, the Parsons Prologue and Tale as well as the Retraction are all missing.
The Canterbury Tales Manuscripts: Sloane 1685 (Sl) and Sloane 1686 (Sl The Collection of Hans Sloane, as obtained by the British Library, contained two manuscripts of Chaucers Canterbury Tales.
There exists within the Manuscript the link that connects the Monks Tale and the Tale of Melibee, within which the characters of the Tale of Melibee are specifically mentioned.

http://beowulf.engl.uky.edu/~kiernan/ENG421/Reports/Reports-2/swikert-2.htm (629 words)