Tolkien on Chaucer, 1913-1959

Tolkien on Chaucer, 1913-1959 is a scholarly book by John M. Bowers and Peter Steffensen, published in 2024 by the Oxford University Press.
It traces J.R.R. Tolkien's critical engagements with Geoffrey Chaucer from his undergraduate Oxford essays in 1913 to remarks in his retirement lecture in 1959. It reprints and analyses Tolkien's major articles such as "Chaucer as a Philologist: The Reeve's Tale", along with his unpublished edition of the Reeve's Tale and his lectures on the Clerk's Tale and the Pardoner's Tale.
==Contents==
*List of Illustrations
*List of Abbreviations
*Introduction
*1. Chaucerian in Training, 1913-23
**"The Language of Chaucer" (1913)
**"Chaucer and his Contemporaries" (1914)
**Troilus and Criseyde
**Oxford English Dictionary (1918-20)
**Tolkien at Leeds: TLS and YWES
*2. Editing Chaucer, 1924-28
**Oxford University Press correspondence (1924-51)
**Tolkien Editing Skeat's Chaucer
**The Glossary (1925)
**The Notes (1928).
*3. The Reeve's Tale, 1928-44
**"Chaucer as a Philologist: The Reeve's Tale" (1934)
**Oxford's Summer Diversions (1939)
**The Reeve's Tale for Navy Cadets (1944)
*4. Merton Professor of Chaucer, 1947-54
**The Clerk's Tale (1947)
**The Pardoner's Tale (1947)
**The Parlement of Foules (1948)
**The Pardoner's Tale (1951-1954)
*5. The Middle English Losenger
**"Neck Verse" for the Oxford Dante Society (1947)
**Letter on faynights (1951)
**"Middle English Losenger" (1953)
*6. The Pardoner's Tale: The Story and its Form, 1955-56
*7. Valedictory to Chaucer, 1959
*Coda: Tolkien on Chaucer's Retracciouns
*Works Cited
*Index
==From the publisher==
==See also==
* Tolkien's Lost Chaucer
==External links==
* Kindle edition on Amazon US and Amazon UK
* Tolkien on Chaucer on OUP.com
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