Chaucer and the Poets an Essay on Troilus and Criseyde
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...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Ithaca, N.Y.
Cornell University Press
1984, 1984
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| Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | 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 |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| ISBN: | 0801416841 9781501707230 150170723X 9780801416842 |