The learned and the lewed : studies in Chaucer and medieval literature / [print] edited by Larry D. Benson. - Cambridge : Harvard University Press, (c)1974. - x, 405 pages : portrait ; 22 cm. - Harvard English studies ; 5 . - Harvard English studies ; 5. .

"Written for Bartlett Jere Whiting by his students."

Includes bibliographical references.

Bartlett Jere Whiting Now (this), now (that) and BD 646 How Marcia lost her skin: a note on Chaucer's mythology The clerk of Venus: Chaucer and medieval romance The image of paradise in the Merchant's tale Chaucer's clerk as teacher In search of Chaucer: the needed narrative Speculation, intention, and the teaching of Chaucer Chaucer's courtly love The heart and the chain The terror of the dark waters: a note on Virgilian and Beowulfian techniques The art of high prosaic seriousness: John Gower as didactic raconteur A plea for the middle Scots F.J. Child and the ballad "When Adam delved ... ": contexts of a historic proverb The medieval Terence Christian form and Christian meaning in Halldors pattr Reynard the fox and the manipulation of the popular proverb Lydgate the hagiograpger as literary artist John Lydgate and the proverbial tiger Teaching medieval drama as theatre How much was known of the Breton Lai in fourteenth century England? Middle English Emare and the cloth worthily wrought Le Bone Florence of Rome: a Middle English adaptation of a French romance The gest of Robin Hood revisited "Honour & right" in Arthur of Little Britain A deliberate analogue of Fitt I of Thomas of Erceldoune The writings of Bartlett Jere Whiting David Staines -- Leger Brosnahan -- Alfred David -- R.T. Lenaghan -- Kenneth A. Bleeth -- Robert Longsworth -- Christopher Brookhouse -- George F. Reinecke -- Edmund Reiss -- John Leyerle -- Alain Renoir -- Anthony E. Farnham -- Florence H. Ridley -- James Reppert -- Albert B. Friedman -- Paul Theiner -- Joseph Harris -- Donald B. Sands -- James I. Miller, Jr. -- Elizabeth Walsh -- Stanley J. Kahrl -- John B. Beston -- Mortimer J. Donovan -- Anne Thompson Lee -- J.B. Bessinger, Jr. -- Alice B. Morgan -- William Alfred -- McKay Sundwall.



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Whiting, Bartlett Jere, 1904-1995 --Bibliography.


English literature--History and criticism.--Middle English, 1100-1500
Literature, Medieval--History and criticism.

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