E. Talbot Donaldson
Scholar of medieval English literature
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Ethelbert Talbot Donaldson was a scholar of medieval English literature, known for his 1966 translation of Beowulf and his writings on Chaucer's poetry. Biography Ethelbert Talbot Donaldson was born on 18 March 1910 in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He was educated at Harvard University, gaining his BA in 1932. He began his career by teaching languages at the Kent School in Connecticut. He was awarded a fellowship at Yale University in 1942, rising to become the George E. Bodman Professor of English there. During the Second World War he served in the United States Air Force, rising through the ranks from private to captain. He returned repeatedly to Yale, with periods away teaching at University College London, King's College London, Columbia University, and the University of Michigan. In 1974, he and his wife Judith joined the staff of Indiana University; he became a Distinguished Professor of English there, retiring in 1980.
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- Speaking of Chaucer (1970) (123)
- Chaucer the Pilgrim (1954) (69)
- Chaucer's Poetry: An Anthology for the Modern Reader (1975) (64)
- The Swan at the Well: Shakespeare Reading Chaucer (1985) (41)
- Piers Plowman : the C-text and its poet (1950) (28)
- Poetry and crisis in the age of Chaucer (1973) (24)
- Beowulf: a new prose translation (1966) (13)
- Chaucer's Final -E (1948) (11)
- Will's visions of Piers Plowman, do-well, do-better, and do-best (1990) (10)
- Beowulf : the Donaldson translation, backgrounds and sources, criticism (1978) (4)
- On Translating Piers Plowman (1989) (2)
- Thwarted Sexuality in Chaucer's Works (1981) (2)
- Will's vision of Piers Plowman (1990) (2)
- Middle English Seint, Seinte (1948) (1)
- "Piers Plowman". Textual Comparison and the Question of Authorship (1968) (1)
- Chaucer's Miller's Tale, A 3483-6 (1954) (1)
- The Texts of "Piers Plowman": Scribes and Poets (1953) (1)
- Editing the Middle English Manuscript. Charles Moorman (1979) (1)
- Chaucer, Canterbury Tales, D117: A Critical Edition (1965) (1)
- Chaucer's final-e (continued) (1949) (0)
- Beowulf : complete text in old English and modern English (1966) (0)
- Apocalyptic Style in Piers Plowman B XIX-XX (1983) (0)
- Shakespeare's Chaucer: A Study in Literary Origins.Ann Thompson (1980) (0)
- Chaucer's Verse. Paull F. Baum (1964) (0)
- Chaucer and the English Tradition. Ian Robinson (1974) (0)
- Chaucer's Troilus, iv. 1585: A Biblical Allusion? (1961) (0)
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