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...Green Chapel come, I charge you." --Sir Gawain and the Green Knight...
Benson, a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, came to Harvard in 1959. He is an expert in medieval literature and is the author of Art and Tradition in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and the co-author of The Literary Context of Chaucer's Fabliaux...
Herself a poet and critic (Sir Gawain and the Green Knight), Miss Borroff spent last spring feeding the machine simple grammar, assorted stanzaic patterns and a vocabulary of 950 words that she selected by letting her finger fall blindly on poems in classical and avant-garde anthologies. Then she had the computer's random number generator make the word selections and let it rip-at two stanzas a second...
Professor Bloomfield, who received wide student approval when he taught Harvard's Chaucer course this year, is sure to add the insight that you need to appreciate Beowulf or Gawain and the Green Knight. Though it's not really summer fare, this course might just...
Benson, a recent recipient of a Fellowship, will be on sabbati leave in England next year, studying English poetic techniques. His first Art and Tradition in Sir Gawain and Green Knight, will be published by University Press this fall...