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The Dreamer Again in The Book of the Duchess

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

Donald C. Baker
Donald C. Baker*
Affiliation:
Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College
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Notes, Documents, and Critical Comment
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PMLA , Volume 70 , Issue 1 , March 1955 , pp. 279 - 282
Copyright
Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1955

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References

1 All Chaucer quotations are from the Robinson text.

2 J. S. P. Tatlock, The Mind and Art of Chaucer (Syracuse, 1951), p. 30. Kemp Malone, Chapters on Chaucer (Baltimore, 1951), p. 38, suggests, in passing, that Chaucer might have nodded.

3 P. V. D. Shelly, The Living Chaucer (Philadelphia, 1940), pp. 48–49; Bertrand H. Bronson, “The Book of the Duchess Re-opened,” PMLA, lxvii (Sept. 1952), 877; James R. Kreuzer, “The Dreamer in the Book of the Duchess,” PMLA, lxvi (June 1951), 543–545.

4 Malone, pp. 38–39.

5 Wolfgang H. Clemen, Der junge Chaucer, Kölner Anglistische Arbeiten, xxxiii (Bochum-Langendreer, 1938), 60.

6 G. L. Kittredge, Chaucer and His Poetry (Cambridge, Mass., 1915), pp. 37–38.

7 Samuel Schoenbaum, “Chaucer's Black Knight,” MLN, lxviii (Feb. 1953), 121–122, maintains that, although it is nearly a certain historical fact that the Knight is John of Gaunt, the Book of the Duchess must not be read as an historical document at the expense of its being read as a poem, and as an elegy. With this I certainly agree.