Chaucer and His French Contemporaries: Natural Music in the Fourteenth Century
- Author / Editor
- Wimsatt, James I.
Chaucer and His French Contemporaries: Natural Music in the Fourteenth Century
- Published
- Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1991.
- Physical Description
- xv, 378 pp.
- Description
- A comprehensive analysis of the contemporary French influence on Chaucer, exploring lyric rather than narrative features and concentrating on the impact of "formes fixes." Wimsatt devotes individual chapters to Chaucer's literary relations with Jean de la Mote, Jean Froissart, Oton de Granson, and Eustache Deschamps. Three chapters assess the English poets connections with Guillaume de Machaut, which are basic to all Chaucer's verse from the lyrics and BD to TC and LGW.
- In all cases, biographical and historical information provides context for comparison of individual poems, stylistic features, and musical qualities of French and English court poetry from 1350-1400.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.