Word: chaucerians
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Probably most intriguing to the U.S. reader are the rich specimens mined from out-of-the-way pockets of the British isles. If E. Glyn Lewis' essay on Welsh literature and Rhys Davies' rich, Chaucerian story about a sin-hunting minister are at all representative, this section is having a lively cultural revival. Precisely why this nook of the world should be so awake when so many other parts of it are dozing will prove a neat problem for some future historian...
...what Americans had done to the English language since Jamestown was settled in 1607. He brought with "him thousands of cards representing American entries in the OED. These became the basis of the DAE. Sir William's co-editor since 1936 has been Chicago's lanky Chaucerian Professor James Root Hulbert. Many U.S. experts lent their advice, and volunteers supplied thousands of samples of early U.S. usages...
Cross Creek (Book-of-the-Month Club selection for April) is her reminiscent, unhurried, humorous account of how she discovered and took possession of a new U.S. literary landscape (Florida), a new literary folk (the Florida backwoods people) and the Cracker idiom whose Shakespearean and Chaucerian turns struck her sensitive ear, when she first heard them, like a blow. Above all, Cross Creek is a prose poem about the deceptively monotonous Florida land, whose deceptively soft-spoken people have become merely its human adaptation...
...wildest Chaucerian scholar in America, outside of this room...
...ancestors arrived on the Mayflower. He learned his letters in bookish Boston, graduated at the head of his class ('82) from Harvard, taught Latin at Phillips Exeter. Thereafter for 48 years he was Kittredge of Harvard, Shakespearean and Chaucerian scholar, authority on witchcraft and Norse religion, one of the last Victorians. But above all, "Kitty" was Harvard. When he died last week, part of Harvard died with...