Dante, Chaucer, and the Poetics of the Past
- Author / Editor
- Ordiway, Frank Bryan.
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.