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Close upon the recent appearance of four articles by Harvard professors in the current number of the Atlantic Monthly comes the publication of a Concordance to the works of Chancer by Professor J. S. P. Tatlock '96 and the impending appearance of a book of essays on fishing by Professor Bliss Perry Hon. '25, who contributed one of the articles to the Atlantic Monthly...
...graduating from Harvard he studied and traveled abroad for three years. On returning to America he was engaged in teaching in New York City but since 1904 he has devoted his time almost exclusively to writing plays. He is the author of two works on "The Canterbury Tales" of Chancer, "Fonris the Wolf, a Tragedy," and "Joan d'Are," which has been produced by Mr. E. H. Sothern and Miss Marlowe in America and England...
...fifteenth century was the poorest in literature which England has known; for there was no poet worthy of note from the time of Chancer to the latter part of the reign of Henry VIII. This can easily be explained by the Law of Leisure. In a time of national rest, literature, and especially poetry, flourishes much better than when a country is thrown into confusion by political disputes. "Poetry", as Wordsworth says, "is the expression of emotion recollected in tranquility. "Now the age which followed Chaucer was one of unusual political activity. Either men did not write...
...period covered in the lecture was from Chaucer to Elizabeth. The first poet of note was John Barbour who was born in 1320. In 1375 he wrote his story of Robert the First, called, "The Bruce." The language was the Northern English much like that used by Chancer. Barbour was a man of varied culture, a master of pathos and a true poet. His work is full of dignity and some of his characters show that his own nature must have been that of a gentleman. There is in his work no trace of humor; his mind seemed to turn...
...Chancer and Langland...