Critic and Poet: What Lydgate and Henryson Did to Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde

Author / Editor
Benson, C. David.

Title
Critic and Poet: What Lydgate and Henryson Did to Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde

Published
Modern Language Quarterly 53 (1992): 23-40.

Description
Describes the writers' approaches to their source in Chaucer: Lydgate as a "scholarly commentator" and Henryson as a poet who exploits "Chaucer's innovative literary devices" in an original way.
Reprinted in Daniel J. Pinti, "Writings After Chaucer" (New York and London: Garland, 1998), pp. 227-41.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.
Troilus and Criseyde.