MS Harley 2253Brown XIVSecular Lyrics Richard L. Hoffman was Professor of English at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He was the author of Ovid and the Canterbury Tales and of many papers in medieval studies and co-author of A Companion to the Roots of Modern English . Maxwell S. Luria teaches English at Temple University and is the author of A Reader's Guide to the Roman de la Rose and articles on medieval English and French literature.