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The Canterbury Tales. A versification by Nevill Coghill, preserving much of the lusty, 14th century tone of the original Chaucer in a rendering as witty and up-to-date as the conversation of a 20th century Oxford don (TIME, Aug. 11).

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: RECENT & READABLE, Sep. 29, 1952 | 9/29/1952 | See Source »

The Canterbury Tales. A versification by Nevill Coghill, preserving much of the lusty, 14th century tone of the original Chaucer in a rendering as witty and up-to-date as the conversation of a 20th century Oxford don (TIME, Aug.11).

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: RECENT & READABLE, Sep. 22, 1952 | 9/22/1952 | See Source »

The Canterbury Tales. A versification by Nevill Coghill, preserving much of the lusty 14th-century tone of the original Chaucer in a rendering as witty and up-to-date as the conversation of a 20th-century Oxford don (TIME, Aug. 11).

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: RECENT & READABLE, Sep. 1, 1952 | 9/1/1952 | See Source »

The Canterbury Tales. A versification by Nevill Coghill preserves the lusty tone of the original Chaucer in a rendering as up-to-date as the conversation of a 20th century Oxford don (TIME, Aug. 11).

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: RECENT & READABLE, Aug. 18, 1952 | 8/18/1952 | See Source »

Like hosts of other schoolboy scholars, Nevill Coghill tackled Chaucer in his teens, and found the venerable verses too quaint to be much fun. In time-when Coghill himself had become a relatively venerable (47) fellow of Exeter College, Oxford-he set out to de-quaint The Canterbury Tales.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lollipop Chaucer | 8/11/1952 | See Source »

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