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Larry Benson

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#2108

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#3874

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#180

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#432

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Larry Benson

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#2790

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#3971

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#1379

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#1730

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Larry Benson's Degrees

PhD Linguistics University of Chicago
Masters English Columbia University
Bachelors English Columbia University

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According to Wikipedia, Larry Dean Benson was a professor of medieval literature at Harvard University. After an undergraduate degree at Arizona State University and a Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley, he taught at Harvard for 45 years, retiring in 1998. A scholar of Old and Middle English literature, he is best known as the general editor of the Riverside Chaucer, the authoritative modern edition of the complete works of Geoffrey Chaucer.

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Larry Benson's Published Works

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The Riverside Chaucer (1986) (1467)
The Literary Character of Anglo-Saxon Formulaic Poetry (1966) (95)
Art and tradition in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (1965) (63)
Malory's Morte Darthur (1976) (55)
King Arthur's Death: The Middle English Stanzaic Morte Arthur and Alliterative Morte Arthure (1974) (55)
The Wisdom of Poetry: Essays in Early English Literature in Honor of Morton W. Bloomfield (1982) (33)
Riverside Chaucer 3rd ed. (1987) (28)
The Order of The Canterbury Tales (2018) (26)
A glossarial concordance to the Riverside Chaucer (1993) (25)
The Learned and the lewed : studies in Chaucer and medieval literature (1974) (20)
King Arthur's death (1986) (19)
The Canterbury tales : complete (2000) (19)
The literary context of Chaucer's fabliaux : texts and translations (1971) (17)
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Stylistic and Metrical Study (1963) (12)
The Originality of Beowulf (1970) (12)
An Evaluation of Reference Desk Service. (1989) (11)
The “Queynte” Punnings of Chaucer’s Critics (2018) (10)
Scholarly Research and Reference Service in the Automated Environment (1995) (8)
The Riverside Chaucer. Based on the Works of Geoffrey Chaucer@@@The Narrative Art of the Canterbury Tales: A Critical Study of the Major Poems (1990) (7)
Chaucer's historical present, its meaning and uses (1961) (5)
Chivalric literature : essays on relations between literature & life in the later Middle Ages (1980) (4)
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Close Verse Translation (2012) (3)
The Source of the Beheading Episode in "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" (1961) (3)
A Concordance to John Gower's "Confessio Amantis". J. D. Pickles , J. L. Dawson (1988) (1)
J. B. Bessinger Jr, ed., A Concordance to Beowulf . Programmed by Philip H. Smith, Jr. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1969. Pp. xxxvi, 373. (1970) (1)
P. L. Heyworth, ed., Medieval Studies for J. A. W. Bennett . Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1981. Pp. xi, 425; 4 black-and-white plates and frontispiece. £27.50. (1983) (1)
The Serials Catalog (1990) (1)
Reference Philosophy vs Service Reality (1985) (1)
The Life of Chaucer (2004) (1)
Memoirs of Fellows and Corresponding Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America (1985) (0)
Memoirs of Fellows and Corresponding Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America (1982) (0)
2. Fifteenth-Century Prose Romance (1976) (0)
11. The Book of Sir Lancelot and Guenevere (1976) (0)
The Harvard University Geoffrey Chaucer Collection (2001) (0)
The Use of A Physical Viewpoint in Berners’ Froissart (1959) (0)
Chronology of Chaucer (2000) (0)
The Gawain-Poet: A Critical Study (1972) (0)
Chaucer: An Introduction@@@Chaucer's Idea of What Is Noble@@@The Literary Context of Chaucer's Fabliaux (1973) (0)
9. The Realism of Fifteenth-Century Romance (1976) (0)
The Complete Works of the Gawain-Poet@@@Art and Tradition in 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' (1967) (0)
12. The Death of Arthur (1976) (0)
William Matthews, The Tragedy of Arthur: A Study of the Alliterative “Morte Arthure.” Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1960. Pp. x, 230. $5. (1961) (0)
III. Sir Thomas Malory’s Le Morte Darthur (1968) (0)
Barnet Kottler, Alan M. Markman, A Concordance to Five Middle English Poems: Cleanness, St Erkenwald, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Patience, Pearl . Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1966. Pp. xxxiii, 761. $10 (1967) (0)
Memoirs of Fellows and Corresponding Fellows of the Mediaeval Academy of America (1975) (0)
7. Fifteenth-Century Chivalry (1976) (0)
8. Knighthood in Life and Literature (1976) (0)
1. Malory and the Prose Cycles (1976) (0)
VERNACULAR CRAFT AND SCIENCE IN THE EQUATORIE OF THE PLANETIS (2019) (0)
5. The Tale of Sir Gareth (1976) (0)
4. Thematic Invention: A Noble Tale of Sir Lancelot (1976) (0)
THE “REDE WYNDE” IN “THE SIEGE OF JERUSALEM” (1960) (0)
Richard Barber, The Knight and Chivalry. New York: Harper & Row, 1982. Paper. Pp. 399; 3 maps and 26 black-and-white illustrations. $7.25. First published by The Boydell Press Ltd. in 1970. (1983) (0)
Memoirs of Fellows and Corresponding Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America (1981) (0)
Kemp Malone, ed., The Nowell Codex: British Museum Cotton Vitellius A. XV, Second MS. (Early English Manuscripts in Facsimile, XII.) Copenhagen; Rosenkilde and Bagger, 1963. Paper. Pp. 120 plus 116 collotype plates. (1964) (0)
3. Techniques of Adaptation: The Tale of King Arthur and Arthur and Lucius (1976) (0)
Alistair Campbell, Old English Grammar. First paperback edition. New York: Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, 1983. Paper. Pp. xiv, 423. $19.95. First published in 1959; reviewed in Speculum 35 (1960), 435–38. (1984) (0)
6. The Book of Sir Tristram (1976) (0)
Ellison's INVISIBLE MAN (2000) (0)
Memoirs of Fellows and Corresponding Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America (1988) (0)
10. The Tale of the Sancgreal (1976) (0)

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