Contributors

Contributors LARRY D. BENSON is Professor of English and Chairman of the Depart­ ment of English and American Literature and Language at Harvard University. He is presently working with Robert A. Pratt and others on a revision of Robinson's Chaucer. JOHN A. BURROW is Winterstoke Professor of English at the University of Bristol. He has also taught at London, Oxford, and Yale. His main publications are A Reading ofSir Gawain and the Green Knight, Ricardian Poetry, Geoffrey Chaucer (Penguin Critical Anthologies), Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Penguin Poets), and English Verse 1300-1500 (Longman Annotated Anthologies). He has just com­ pleted an Introduction to }.,fiddle English Literature, to be published by Oxford, and has been working for several years on the Ages of Man in Medieval literature. SHEILA DELANY, Associate Professor of English at Simon Fraser Universi­ ty near Vancouver, Canada, teaches ancient, medieval, and renaiss­ ance literature as well as an interdisciplinary course in "Marxism and the Arts." She has published Counter-Tradition: the Literature of Dissent and Alternatives (1970), Chaucer's House ofFame: the Poetics of Skeptical Fideism (1972), and numerous articles on medieval and modern literature and culcure. She is preparing a collection of essays on women in literature and a book-length socio-political reading of The Canterbmy Tales. EowARD C. SCHWEITZER, Associate Professor of English at Louisiana State University, has published essays on Middle English, Old French, and Middle High German literature in such journals as JEGP, Traditio, and Euphorion. He is writing a series of essays on the poetic use oflearned idea and allusion in Chaucer and Langland and preparing an edition of a Latin moralized encyclopedia, the Liber de morafitatibus. 260 ...