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He was ostensibly reading English Literature and Italian, and he even went to lectures "with all those pustular, sweaty, hockey-playing, earnest, big-breasted girls"; but he found his real interest in the Oxford University Dramatic Society. Nevill Coghill, don, critic, and man of the theater, was directing Measure for...
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...
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...
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).
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).