Dante, Chaucer, and the Poetics of the Past

Author / Editor
Ordiway, Frank Bryan.

Title
Dante, Chaucer, and the Poetics of the Past

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 51 (1991): 2373A

Description
Unlike Dante, who recognizes his poetic "fathers" in the Divine Comedy and sees himself as surpassing them, Chaucer in TC adopts the stance of the translator of an ancient text but questions the value of its tradition.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.