Meretricious Mixtures: Chaucer's Ovid and the Poetry of Love and Exile

Author / Editor
Calabrese, Michael Anthony.

Title
Meretricious Mixtures: Chaucer's Ovid and the Poetry of Love and Exile

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 53 (1992): 804A.

Description
Ovid and the Ovidian tradition provided Chaucer with a poetic ranging from the "game" of Ars Amatoria to the "ernest" of Tristia. Chaucer uses rhetoric to various ends with the Wife of Bath, the Pardoner, and the Canon. In Ret, however, Chaucer seeks not the remission of political exile but entrance to heaven.

Chaucer Subjects
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.
Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
Pardoner and His Tale.
Canon's Yeoman and His Tale.
Chaucer's Retraction.