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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The Canterbury Tales, Vol. I (The Spoken Word, 4 LPs) were written in the 14th century by Geoffrey Chaucer to be read aloud, but to an audience with lots of time on its hands. Long, lovingly detailed, filled with philosophic asides, many of the tales proved too stupefying even for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Spoken Word | 12/9/1957 | See Source »

U.S. poets, for the most part, were still busier writing about poetry than writing poems. In Country Sleep showed the talented Dylan Thomas flinging about some of his typically brilliant Welsh images. But the poetic service of the year was done by English Scholar Nevill Coghill. His modern-verse translation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poetry & Criticism | 12/15/1952 | 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, Nov. 10, 1952 | 11/10/1952 | 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, Oct. 13, 1952 | 10/13/1952 | 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. 29, 1952 | 9/29/1952 | See Source »

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