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Chaucer and the Poets: An Essay on Troilus and Criseyde

Author
Wetherbee, Winthrop
Abstract
In this sensitive reading of Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde, Winthrop Wetherbee redefines the nature of Chaucer’s poetic vision. Using as a starting point Chaucer’s profound admiration for the achievement of Dante and the classical poets, Wetherbee sees the Troilus as much more than a courtly treatment of an event in ancient history—it is, he asserts, a major statement about the poetic tradition from which it emerges. Wetherbee demonstrates the evolution of the poet-narrator of the Troilus, who begins as a poet of romance, bound by the characters’ limited worldview, but who in the end becomes a poet capable of realizing the tragic and ultimately the spiritual implications of his story.
Date Issued
1984Publisher
Cornell University Press
Subject
Medieval & Renaissance Studies; Literary & Cultural Studies
ISBN
9780801416842 (print) 9781501707094 (epub) 9781501707100 (PDF ebook)
Rights
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Type
book
Accessibility Feature
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