Nevill Coghill is the author of Canterbury Tales (1978), The Nun's Priest's Tale of Chaucer. Newly rendered into modern English by Nevill Coghill. (Wood-engravings by Lynton Lamb.). (1950), The Nun's Priest's Tale. Edited by Nevill Coghill ... and Christopher Tolkien (1959), The merchant's tale, Geoffrey Chaucer, by Nevill Coghill (pbk). (1969).