Chaucer and the Poets

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Chaucer and the Poets

Chaucer and the Poets

Name: Chaucer and the Poets
ISBN: 9780801416842

Winthrop Wetherbee

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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.

Anno:

1984

Casa editrice:

Cornell

Lingua:

english

Pagine:

264

ISBN 10:

0801416841

ISBN 13:

9780801416842