Nevill Coghill (1899-1980) was a British literary scholar, known especially for his modern English version of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. 1899 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... 1980 is a leap year starting on Tuesday. ... Chaucer: Illustration from Cassells History of England, circa 1902 Geoffrey Chaucer (c. ... Canterbury Tales Woodcut 1484 The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories written by Geoffrey Chaucer in the 14th century (two of them in prose, the rest in verse). ...
He was a fellow of Exeter College, Oxford. He was Merton Professor of English Literature of the University of Oxford from 1957 to 1966. Exeter College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. ... The University of Oxford, located in the city of Oxford, England, is the oldest university in the English-speaking world. ...
His Chaucer and Langland translations were first made for BBC radio broadcasts. He was well known in his time as a theatrical producer in Oxford. He was an associate of The Inklings literary group. The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is the national publicly funded broadcaster of the United Kingdom. ... The Inklings was a literary discussion group associated with the University of Oxford. ...
Works
New Oxford Poetry 1937 (1937) edited with Alistair Sandford
The Masque of Hope (1948)
The Poet Chaucer (1949)
Visions From Piers Plowman (1949)
Troilus and Cressida in Modern English Verse (1957), Chaucer, translator
The Collected Papers of Nevill Coghill Shakespearian & Medievalist (1988)
Christopher Reuel Tolkien (born November 21, 1924) is best known as the son of author J. R. R. Tolkien, and as the editor of much of his fathers posthumously published work. ... Christopher Reuel Tolkien (born November 21, 1924) is best known as the son of author J. R. R. Tolkien, and as the editor of much of his fathers posthumously published work. ...
Reference
To Nevill Coghill from Friends (1966) Festschrift edited by John Lawlor and W. H. Auden
Coghill's diary, miraculously recovered on the battlefield after the carnage was over, and quoted by his nephew Sir Patrick Coghill in his memoir "Whom the Gods Love", he had injured his knee when on reconnaissance with Lord Chelmsford the previous afternoon.
NevillCoghill's heroic conduct in endeavouring to save his brother officer's life, they would have been recommended to Her Majesty for the Victoria Cross had they survived.
Coghill is shown wearing his dark blue patrol jacket which helped him to reach the Buffalo crossing in safety, and is depicted with his newly grown beard, of which he wrote in his last surviving letter, that it was now a presentable Van Dyke but that he would be thankful to take it off.
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