Nevill Coghill

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Nevill Coghill


Born
April 19, 1899

Died
November 06, 1980


Nevill Henry Kendal Aylmer Coghill FRSL was an Anglo-Irish literary scholar, known especially for his modern-English version of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. ...more

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The Canterbury Tales Annota...

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The Poet Chaucer (Opus Books)

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The Collected Papers of Nev...

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Geoffrey Chaucer

liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1964 — 5 editions
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Langland: Piers Plowman

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The pardon of Piers Plowman

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Chaucer's idea of what is n...

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Shakespeare's Professional ...

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British Writers and Their Work

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Geoffrey Chaucer

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“Before his mistress a lover was prostrate, wounded to death by her beauty, killed by her disdain, obliged to an illimitable constancy, marked out for her dangerous service. A smile from her was in theory a gracious reward for twenty years of painful adoration.”
Nevill Coghill, The Canterbury Tales

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