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'''Nevill Henry Kendal Aylmer Coghill''' ([[1899]]-[[1980]]) was a fellow [[Inklings|Inkling]] with [[J.R.R. Tolkien]]. He published a famous translation of the ''Canterbury Tales''.
'''Nevill Henry Kendal Aylmer Coghill''' ([[19 April]] [[1899]]-[[6 November]] [[1980]]) was a fellow [[Inklings|Inkling]] with [[J.R.R. Tolkien]]. He published a famous translation of the ''Canterbury Tales''.


Soon after the publication of the ''[[Fellowship of the Ring]]'', Coghill wrote to Tolkien asking some explanations about the story; Tolkien [[Letter to Nevill Coghill|replied in a letter]] ([[21 August]] [[1954]]) that some things should be left until the later volumes of ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' appeared.
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==Bibliography, selected==
===Books===
===Books===
*[[1958]]: ''The Pardoner's Tale''. Geoffrey Chaucer, ed. Nevill Coghill and Christopher Tolkien. London: George G. Harrap, 1958. [29 Oct 58]
*[[1958]]: ''The Pardoner's Tale''. Geoffrey Chaucer, ed. Nevill Coghill and Christopher Tolkien. London: George G. Harrap, 1958. [29 Oct 58]
*[[1959]]: T''he Nun's Priest's Tale''. Geoffrey Chaucer, ed. Nevill Coghill and Christopher Tolkien. London: George G. Harrap, 1959. [28 Feb 60]
*[[1959]]: ''The Nun's Priest's Tale''. Geoffrey Chaucer, ed. Nevill Coghill and Christopher Tolkien. London: George G. Harrap, 1959. [28 Feb 60]
*[[1969]]: ''The Man of Law's Tale''. Geoffrey Chaucer, ed. Nevill Coghill and Christopher Tolkien. London: George G. Harrap, 1969. [Jun 69]
===Articles===
* [[1962]]: ''[[English and Medieval Studies Presented to J.R.R. Tolkien on the Occasion of his Seventieth Birthday]]''
** "God's Wenches and the Light that Spoke (a note on Langland's kind of poetry)"


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Latest revision as of 20:22, 23 February 2021

Nevill Henry Kendal Aylmer Coghill (19 April 1899-6 November 1980) was a fellow Inkling with J.R.R. Tolkien. He published a famous translation of the Canterbury Tales.

Soon after the publication of the Fellowship of the Ring, Coghill wrote to Tolkien asking some explanations about the story; Tolkien replied in a letter (21 August 1954) that some things should be left until the later volumes of The Lord of the Rings appeared.

Bibliography, selected[edit | edit source]

Books[edit | edit source]

  • 1958: The Pardoner's Tale. Geoffrey Chaucer, ed. Nevill Coghill and Christopher Tolkien. London: George G. Harrap, 1958. [29 Oct 58]
  • 1959: The Nun's Priest's Tale. Geoffrey Chaucer, ed. Nevill Coghill and Christopher Tolkien. London: George G. Harrap, 1959. [28 Feb 60]
  • 1969: The Man of Law's Tale. Geoffrey Chaucer, ed. Nevill Coghill and Christopher Tolkien. London: George G. Harrap, 1969. [Jun 69]

Articles[edit | edit source]

External links[edit | edit source]

The Inklings
J.R.R. Tolkien · Owen Barfield · J.A.W. Bennett · Lord David Cecil · Nevill Coghill · James Dundas-Grant · Hugo Dyson · Adam Fox · Colin Hardie · Robert Havard · C.S. Lewis · Warren Lewis · Gervase Mathew · R.B. McCallum · C.E. Stevens · Christopher Tolkien · John Wain · Charles Williams · Charles Leslie Wrenn