Manuscript/Mixed Material Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection: Notes and Notebooks, 1847-1891; Notes, 1847-1891; Reference; Undated; Chaucer, Geoffrey, Whitman's notes on “A Review of Chaucer”
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Image 1 of Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection: Notes and Notebooks, 1847-1891; … FEINBERGWHITMAN NOTES and NOTEBOOKS NOTESRetirence UNDATED Chaucer WWs Manuscript Notes and Review of Chaucer Box 42 Folder 63- Date: 1847
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Image 2 of Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection: Notes and Notebooks, 1847-1891; … Chaucer Marginilia AMA 82p 18x 12 cm 188 Written in pencil with last page in ink in the margins and on an endsheet of two books one on Chaucer pp xixiii 2181…- Date: 1847
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Image 4 of Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection: Notes and Notebooks, 1847-1891; … FREDERICK BALDWIN ADAMS JR- Date: 1847
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Image 6 of Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection: Notes and Notebooks, 1847-1891; … WALT WHITMANS MANUSCRIPT NOTES ON A Review of Chaucer- Date: 1847
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Image 7 of Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection: Notes and Notebooks, 1847-1891; … TO THE READER OF CHAUCER DUE attention to the following remarks by Tyrwhitt upon the pronunciation and accent of words used by Chaucer and their seeming metrical irregularity will enable us to…- Date: 1847
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Image 8 of Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection: Notes and Notebooks, 1847-1891; … xii REMARKS ON PRONUNCIATION the past tense and its participle made or contributed to make a second syllable in the words perced bathed loved wered c But nothing will be found of…- Date: 1847
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Image 9 of Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection: Notes and Notebooks, 1847-1891; … EFFECTS OF HIS WRITINGS 21 CHAPTER II The effect produced upon the English language by Chaucers writingsâ The grade and quality of his genius IT will not be deemed presumptuous perhaps if…- Date: 1847
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Image 10 of Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection: Notes and Notebooks, 1847-1891; … 22 CHAUCER dialect by abolishing the use of Norman tongue in the public and judicial proceedings and by substituting the national language of the country But Chaucer first taught his countrymen to…- Date: 1847
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Image 11 of Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection: Notes and Notebooks, 1847-1891; … 24 CHAUCER poet the language was considered semibarbarous both at home and abroad and there was no institution of learning where English was suffered to be taught Children in scole says a…- Date: 1847
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Image 12 of Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection: Notes and Notebooks, 1847-1891; … 26 CHAUCER Spenser copied Chaucer 200 yrs after honored Nor was Wordsworth the only poet who bowed before the majesty of Chaucers hoar antiquity Spenser the first after him whose genius could…- Date: 1847
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Image 13 of Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection: Notes and Notebooks, 1847-1891; … 28 CHAUCER claim to originality while the most malevolent objector against his genius must confess that as a translator he has been rarely equalled Indeed critics generally agree that so many new…- Date: 1847
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Image 14 of Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection: Notes and Notebooks, 1847-1891; … 30 CHAUCER CHAPTER III Characteristics of Chaucers PoetryâHis estimate of Woman and fondness for birds flowers and rural sceneryâControl over languageâOmission to celebrate the great personages of his age and nation AN…- Date: 1847
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Image 15 of Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection: Notes and Notebooks, 1847-1891; … 32 CHAUCER It is worthy of remark that Chaucers descriptions of woman never invest her with any Junolike attributes but she is ever as mild patient and submissive as she is beauteous…- Date: 1847
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Image 16 of Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection: Notes and Notebooks, 1847-1891; … 34 CHAUCER dirt which disfigure it and leaving it more fragrant than before His description of the good Prioresse and her foibles serves to contrast with the nobler characters we have just…- Date: 1847
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Image 17 of Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection: Notes and Notebooks, 1847-1891; … 36 CHAUCER Under his belt he bare full thirftily Well coude he dress his takle yemanly His arwes drooped not with featheres lowe And in his hand he bore a mighty bowe…- Date: 1847
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Image 18 of Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection: Notes and Notebooks, 1847-1891; … 38 CHAUCER object he may be professedly portraying For the purpose of contrasting these two builders of English Song we subjoin examples from both The following is a celebrated description of sunrise…- Date: 1847
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Image 19 of Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection: Notes and Notebooks, 1847-1891; … 40 CHAUCER paintings unappropriated when it contains landscapes as lovely as ever eyes dwelt upon barnyard and rural pictures wherewith many a heart might be gladdened and groupings of godlike forms and…- Date: 1847
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Image 20 of Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection: Notes and Notebooks, 1847-1891; … 42 CHAUCER Countess of Salisbury in the midst of feasts and joustings that had been proclaimed throughout Europe and which were graced by the beautiful and brave of France Scotland and Brabant…- Date: 1847
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Image 21 of Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection: Notes and Notebooks, 1847-1891; … 44 CHAUCER Such a study would prove no less absorbing to the philosopher than genial to the poet and if systematically pursued would challenge the attention of both Without daring to lay…- Date: 1847
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Image 22 of Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection: Notes and Notebooks, 1847-1891; … 46 CHAUCER tion is fettered his fancy becomes bewildered and his attention distracted by the countless variety of objects which his position in the worlds life forces upon him His reason like…- Date: 1847
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Image 23 of Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection: Notes and Notebooks, 1847-1891; … 48 CHAUCER and sallow skin and by causing them to elect a craving and hungry belly rather than part with their illbegotten wealth We award the superiority in this instance to Chaucers…- Date: 1847
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Image 24 of Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection: Notes and Notebooks, 1847-1891; … 50 CHAUCER and expression when occupied upon the same point yet we think it chiefly applies to natural or real objects and not to chimeras or visions of the imagination Hence we…- Date: 1847
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Image 25 of Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection: Notes and Notebooks, 1847-1891; … Plainest Imitators Hardly any poet in the English language since 1400 but imitates Chaucer more or less 52 CHAUCER _____________________________________________________________________ A little lowly hermitage it was Down in a dale hard by…- Date: 1847
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Image 26 of Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection: Notes and Notebooks, 1847-1891; … 54 CHAUCER ____________________________________________________________________ when I thought my author was deficient and had not given his thoughts their true lustre for want of words in the beginning of our language Not content with…- Date: 1847
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Image 27 of Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection: Notes and Notebooks, 1847-1891; … 56 CHAUCER ___________________________________________________________________ painting In his satire alsoand satire was Drydens peculiar elementthere is less of the calm selfpossession of power far less of that honest indignation which is void of malice…- Date: 1847
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Image 28 of Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection: Notes and Notebooks, 1847-1891; … 58 CHAUCER But hid the dagger underneath the gown Th assassinating wife the household fiend And far the blackest there the traitor friend On tother side there stood destruction brave Unpunished rapine…- Date: 1847
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Image 29 of Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection: Notes and Notebooks, 1847-1891; … Chaucer was humorous perhaps as humorous as Shakespeare 60 CHAUCER ____________________________________________________________________ Prologue to the Canterbury TalesAnalysis of the Prologue The several elegant critics who have undertaken to point out the beauties of…- Date: 1847
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Image 30 of Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection: Notes and Notebooks, 1847-1891; … 62 CHAUCER of the characters drawn from thence by his happy arrangement of the petty peculiarities of each individual and by his harmonious blending of the variant lights and shadows of their…- Date: 1847
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Image 31 of Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection: Notes and Notebooks, 1847-1891; … 64 CHAUCER First he recounts the tastes and accomplishments of this son of the cross A Monk ther was a fayre for the maistrie An outrider that loved venerie1 A manly man…- Date: 1847
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Image 32 of Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection: Notes and Notebooks, 1847-1891; … 66 CHAUCER a stout earle for the nones and relieved his ruffianly ferocity by manliness and blunt wit Hiding his lasciviousness under the appearance of a ful solempne man the Frere ravaged…- Date: 1847
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Image 33 of Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection: Notes and Notebooks, 1847-1891; … 68 CHAUCER upon the people it might truly be said of these reptiles that they came up into the houses and into the bedchambers and upon the beds and into the houses…- Date: 1847
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Image 34 of Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection: Notes and Notebooks, 1847-1891; … 70 CHAUCER For if a preest be foule on whom we trust No wonder is a lewed man to rust And shame it is if that a preest take kepe To see…- Date: 1847
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Image 35 of Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection: Notes and Notebooks, 1847-1891; … 72 CHAUCER As brode as is a bokeler or a targe A fotemantel1 about hire hippes large And on her fete a pair of spurres sharpe Although not remarkably straightlaced in her…- Date: 1847
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Image 36 of Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection: Notes and Notebooks, 1847-1891; … 74 CHAUCER social superior of the other To make his resemblance to the hearty class abovementioned more perfect it must also be remembered that he was a great lover of good wine…- Date: 1847
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Image 37 of Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection: Notes and Notebooks, 1847-1891; … 76 CHAUCER As lene was his hors as is a rake And he was not right fat I undertake But loked holweá1 and therto soberly Ful thredbare was his overest courtepyá2 He…- Date: 1847
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Image 38 of Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection: Notes and Notebooks, 1847-1891; … 78 CHAUCER to the gentler class of pilgrims whom it relieved from any obligations to entertain their companions of a day and also shielded them from any undue familiarities But although oure…- Date: 1847
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Image 39 of Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection: Notes and Notebooks, 1847-1891; … 80 CHAUCER A large man he was with open stepe A fairer burgess is there non in Chepe1 Bold of his speche and wise and well ytaught And of manhood him lacked…- Date: 1847
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Image 40 of Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection: Notes and Notebooks, 1847-1891; … Chaucer was plainly a strong wholesome man with large perceptive organs friendly amative of independent spirit possessed of the true English tastes rude fond of women fond of eating and drinking not…- Date: 1847
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Title
- Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection: Notes and Notebooks, 1847-1891; Notes, 1847-1891; Reference; Undated; Chaucer, Geoffrey, Whitman's notes on “A Review of Chaucer”
Created / Published
- 1847 - 1891
Headings
- - Poets
- - American literature
- - American poetry
- - American prose literature
- - Collectors
- - Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892. Leaves of grass. 1855
- - Manuscripts
- - United States
Genre
- Manuscripts
Call Number/Physical Location
- series: Notes and Notebooks, 1847-1891
- mss18630, box 42; reel 26
Source Collection
- Walt Whitman papers in the Charles E. Feinberg collection
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- Manuscript Division
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