Chaucer, Chaucerians, and the Theme of Poetry

Author / Editor
King, Pamela M.

Title
Chaucer, Chaucerians, and the Theme of Poetry

Published
Julia Boffey and Janet Cowen, eds. Chaucer and Fifteenth-Century Poetry. King's College London Medieval Studies, no. 5 (London: King's College Centre for Late Antique and Medieval Studies, 1991), pp. 1-14.

Description
Surveys the metafictional aspects of TC, HF, and NPT, defining narrative and stylistic self-consciousness as recurrent themes. Henryson, Dunbar, Skelton, and James I of Scotland accomplish similar ends through self-reflexive and intertextual devices.

Alternative Title
Chaucer and Fifteenth-Century Poetry.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.