Critic and Poet: What Lydgate and Henryson Did to Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde
- Author / Editor
- Benson, C. David.
Critic and Poet: What Lydgate and Henryson Did to Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde
- Published
- Modern Language Quarterly 53 (1992): 23-40.
- Description
- Describes the writers' approaches to their source in Chaucer: Lydgate as a "scholarly commentator" and Henryson as a poet who exploits "Chaucer's innovative literary devices" in an original way.
- Reprinted in Daniel J. Pinti, "Writings After Chaucer" (New York and London: Garland, 1998), pp. 227-41.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.
- Troilus and Criseyde.